{"id":71647,"date":"2020-01-03T10:27:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=71647"},"modified":"2020-01-03T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:27:26","slug":"graf-donald-age-70-route-1-elmwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/01\/graf-donald-age-70-route-1-elmwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Graf, Donald (Age 70, Route 1, Elmwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-71648\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2020\/01\/756c0124-don-cropped-and-framed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Donald Albert GRAF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of Route 1, Elmwood, on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, in his 71<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0year. Beloved companion and best friend of Nancy Hampel. Loving father of Trent and Tammy of Blyth, and Becki and Mark Frook of Route 1, Elmwood. Cherished grandfather of Riley, Brianna, Brady, Sarah, Kyle, Dillon and Bradley. Don will be fondly remembered by Nancy\u2019s daughters, Tracey and Chris Lantz of Crawford, Mary Buckley and Dan of Hay River, and Christine and Ben Clock of Kingston. He will be missed by Nancy\u2019s grandchildren Madison, Gavin, Bert, Delaney, James, Maxwell, Kaylee and Heidi. Loving brother of Joan and Larry Fritz of Chepstow, Ken and Jackie of Walkerton, Shirley and Paul Willi of Thorndale, Doreen and John Finlayson of Kitchener, Diana and Andy Cleland of London, Sharon Morrison of Brussels and brother-in-law of Betty Anne Graf of\u00a0Sarnia.\u00a0Don was predeceased by his brothers Ron and Pat and his parents Jacob and Dorothy (Bester) Graf.<\/span><br \/>\nVisitation will be held at Rhody Family Funeral Home, on Thursday from 2 until 4 and 7 to 9 PM. The funeral service celebrating Don\u2019s life will be held at St. Peter\u2019s Lutheran Church, Brant Township, #260 Sideroad 30 North, on Friday, January 10, 2020, at 11 AM. Interment in St. Peter\u2019s Lutheran Cemetery, Brant. Arrangements entrusted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhodyfamily.com\/\"><b>Rhody Family Funeral Home<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Chesley.<\/span><br \/>\nMemorial donations to St. Peter\u2019s Lutheran Church or Heart &amp; Stroke Foundation would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Albert GRAF of Route 1, Elmwood, on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, in his 71st\u00a0year. Beloved companion and best friend of Nancy Hampel. Loving father of Trent and Tammy of Blyth, and Becki and Mark Frook of Route 1, Elmwood. Cherished grandfather of Riley, Brianna, Brady, Sarah, Kyle, Dillon and Bradley. Don will be fondly","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,3036,18],"class_list":["post-71647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-chesley","tag-donald-graf","tag-rhody-family-funeral-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 10:00:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/01\/graf-donald-age-70-route-1-elmwood\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71650,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71647\/revisions\/71650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}