{"id":877,"date":"2012-01-03T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2012-01-06T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:14:16","slug":"james-r-mcevoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"James R. McEvoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>James R. McEvoy \u2013 77 \u2013 of Hornell, formerly of Almond, died peacefully Monday evening (January 2, 2012) at McAuley Manor following a long illness.<\/p>\n

Born in Oswego, NY on January 5th, 1934, he was the son of James & Bernice (Guile) McEvoy.\u00a0 He had resided in the Almond \u2013 Hornell area for most of his adult life.<\/p>\n

Jim was a graduate of Williamson High School and later graduated from Ithaca College where he majored in Physical Education.\u00a0 For 33 years, he served as a Physical Education Teacher at Alfred-Almond Central School.\u00a0 During that time, Jim also served as soccer coach, basketball coach and track & field coach.\u00a0 His track & field teams earned seven Section V titles.\u00a0 He retired in 1992.\u00a0 In 1997, he was inducted into the Alfred-Almond Sports Hall of Fame and recently was inducted to the Section V Track & Field Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

From 1957 \u2013 1959, Jim served in the US Army, 2nd Calvary Division and had been stationed in Germany.\u00a0 He was a member of the Hornell American Legion, Hornell Association, Hornell Moose Lodge and the Addison Fraternal Order of Eagles.\u00a0 He was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and had been a communicant of St. Ann\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n

Surviving are his daughter, Cara (Bob Hinds) Wilkinson of Dansville; 3 sons, Todd (Anna Wright) McEvoy, Ryan McEvoy and Chad McEvoy, all of Raleigh, NC; 1 brother, Gary (Jean) McEvoy of Loveland, CO; 1 sister, Carol Deridder of Greeley, CO; his former wife, Patricia McEvoy of Almond; his special friend, Kathy sexton of Hornell; 3 grandsons; 2 granddaughters; several nieces, nephews & cousins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The family of James R. McEvoy will receive friends on Friday from 4:00 PM \u2013 7:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY where funeral services will be held at 12:00 Noon on Saturday with Deacon Robert McCormick officiating.\u00a0 Burial will be in St. Mary\u2019s Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Jim\u2019s family request that memorial contributions in his name be made to the Alfred-Almond Alumni Association, C\/O Cara Wilkinson, 67 Franklin St., Dansville, NY 14437.\u00a0 Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral Home.<\/p>\n

In honor of Jim\u2019s service to his country while serving in the US Army, the American Flag will be flown at Half-Staff at the Dagon Funeral Home.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James R. McEvoy \u2013 77 \u2013 of Hornell, formerly of Almond, died peacefully Monday evening (January 2, 2012) at McAuley Manor following a long illness. Born in Oswego, NY on January 5th, 1934, he was the son of James & Bernice (Guile) McEvoy.\u00a0 He had resided in the Almond \u2013 Hornell area for most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}