{"id":746740,"date":"2026-06-19T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:47:09","slug":"all-my-children-actor-paul-avery-wife-sheila-die-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746740\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;All My Children&#8217; Actor Paul Avery &#038; Wife Sheila Die In House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paul-avery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-avery\" data-tag=\"paul-avery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Avery<\/a>, an actor who appeared in All My Children, and his wife Sheila died in a house fire on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShortly after 12:38am, New Jersey State Police and Blairstown Fire Department responded to a blaze at the couple\u2019s home on Mohican Road, where they were trapped inside, according to Leigh Valley Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/news\/2026\/06\/2-killed-in-overnight-blairstown-house-fire-on-mohican-road-police-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">outlet<\/a> reported that rescuers pulled the victims from the fire but they later died from their injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPaul and Sheila\u2019s daughter Kyle Avery confirmed the news of her parents\u2019 death in a Facebook <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02ifjRQ5GmheHfC41PbWbsZq4aCNewmevkr9aNj5a3jMJNEsymQZXb8awN1j8AQCkrl&amp;id=803210&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr\">post<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019m devastated to share that our parents, Paul and Sheila Garry Avery, passed away early this morning,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe loved them so much, and they loved us so much, and nobody ever had to wonder if that was so,\u201d added Kyle. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to the Blairstown Fire Department for their efforts. Service plans to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to his role as Hughie on two episodes of All My Children in the \u201980s, Paul Avery also appeared in Superman (1978), as well as episodes of Three\u2019s Company, Soap and Tales from the Dark Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Avery, an actor who appeared in All My Children, and his wife Sheila died in a house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,267380],"class_list":["post-746740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-paul-avery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}