{"id":2138,"date":"2018-03-19T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:38:00","slug":"francis-x-balanda-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2018\/03\/19\/francis-x-balanda-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis X. Balanda &#8217;60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2139 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda-193x250.jpg 193w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2018\/03\/balanda.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Francis X. &#8220;Frank&#8221; Balanda, 75, of Southbury, CT died suddenly Friday, March 9, 2018 at home. He was the husband of Joyce (Johnson) Balanda.<br \/>\nFrank was born April 4, 1942 in Waterbury, the son of the late Clarence and Alvera (Zuraitis) Balanda. He was a graduate of Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass., and of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. He was also a U.S. Army Veteran.<br \/>\nFrank worked as a juvenile probation officer for the State of Connecticut until he retired. He also worked many years as a dispatcher for Heritage Village.<br \/>\nFrank was an avid reader and loved tennis and spending his winters in St. Simons Island, Ga.<br \/>\nBesides his wife, he leaves his two children, Kate Balanda of Southbury and Kenneth Balanda of Naugatuck, and a special cousin, Joan (Shobrinsky) Rose of Waterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis X. &#8220;Frank&#8221; Balanda, 75, of Southbury, CT died suddenly Friday, March 9, 2018 at home. He was the husband of Joyce (Johnson) Balanda. Frank was born April 4, 1942 in Waterbury, the son of the late Clarence and Alvera (Zuraitis) Balanda. He was a graduate of Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass., and of Dickinson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2018\/03\/19\/francis-x-balanda-60\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Francis X. Balanda &#8217;60<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[360,584,63],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-class-of-1960","tag-francis-x-balanda","tag-williston-academy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}