{"id":123839,"date":"2026-02-05T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:40:07","slug":"staten-island-obituaries-feb-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123839\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island obituaries: Feb. 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 In honor of those who have died, here is a compilation of obituaries posted on SILive<\/a>. Viewing times and guest books can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

George Runer Jr., 90, passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, following a lengthy period of health complications. Born Sept. 17, 1935, at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, he was a long-time resident of Staten Island with early years spent in Wheeling, West Virginia. He served in the National Guard USAR for over eight years in the 42nd Rainbow Recon Division of New York, receiving three honorable discharges. His professional career spanned multiple industries, including employment as a machine operator for Blue White Laundry for over four years, over 33 years in the ice cream industry working for Dolly Madison, Schraffts Jahns and Sedutos, and over 25 years in the mail room at the Staten Island Advance newspaper. He was the husband of Evelyn Yanez for 67 years, eldest child of George Runer Sr. and Elizabeth Knezeak, and father to George Emanuel Runer and Dr. Evelyn Rosario Runer. Read the full obituary on SILive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Generative AI was used to produce an initial draft of this story based on data from Legacy.com. It was reviewed and edited by Advance\/SILive.com staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 In honor of those who have died, here is a compilation of obituaries posted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-123839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}