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A mother is facing unimaginable heartbreak after losing both of her children just weeks apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patricia Attleberger\u2019s son, 31\u2011year\u2011old Jason Firster, was last seen around 10:30 p.m. on January 7 near the Wye Bridge in Oil City, Pennsylvania. His disappearance prompted a multi\u2011day search of the Allegheny River, and the family is now offering a monetary reward for any information that could help find him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While they were still searching for answers, Attleberger\u2019s 28\u2011year\u2011old daughter, Samantha \u2014 a mother of two \u2014 unexpectedly passed away after medical complications. Now, Patricia is raising her grandchildren, facing funeral expenses, and continuing the search for her son\u2019s body. She is asking for support through a GoFundMe<\/a> as she navigates this overwhelming loss and works to rebuild her family\u2019s future.\u00a0<\/p>\n A spaghetti benefit dinner is also planned for Sunday, February 21, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Oil City Elks Lodge #344. Proceeds will help cover funeral costs, and a lantern vigil will follow at the Wye Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyone with information related to Jason Firster\u2019s disappearance is asked to contact the Oil City Police Department at (814) 678-3080.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother is facing unimaginable heartbreak after losing both of her children just weeks apart.\u00a0 Patricia Attleberger\u2019s son,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22823,111,136,138,137,45735,10063,53189,3640,21601,53188],"class_list":{"0":"post-111383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-allegheny-river","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-funeral-expenses","14":"tag-gofundme","15":"tag-jason-firster","16":"tag-missing-person","17":"tag-oil-city","18":"tag-patricia-attleberger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}