{"id":131261,"date":"2026-03-06T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:18:26","slug":"obituary-josette-marie-zacirka-of-allentown-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131261\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary | Josette Marie Zacirka of Allentown, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Josette Marie Zacirka, of Allentown, PA, passed away Sunday, May 25, 2025, at Jefferson Abington Hospital, Abington, PA. \u00a0She was 56.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She was the loving wife of Todd William Zacirka. \u00a0The couple had celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary on August 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Born in Allentown, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Jane Zimmerman. She was a 1987 graduate of William Allen High School, Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Josette was employed as a construction administrator for Schaedler Yesco, Inc., Allentown, for 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Surviving with her husband are a nephew, Timothy Zimmerman; two nieces, Amy Jackson and Julie Zimmerman; and her two cats, Loki and Jimmy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a half-brother, Carl Zimmerman, and a half-sister, Elaine Zimmerman.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Her Funeral Services will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at the Suess-Gahman Funeral Home &amp; Crematory, 606 Arch Street, Perkasie, PA, where family and friends may call from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the National Kidney Foundation, 1900 Market Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA \u00a019103 or www.kidney.org \u00a0or to the Lehigh Valley Humane Society, 640 Dixon Street, Allentown, PA \u00a018103 or www.lehighvalleyhumanesociety.org<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Josette Marie Zacirka, of Allentown, PA, passed away Sunday, May 25, 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60933,2252,28,60935,60934],"class_list":["post-131261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-josette-marie-zacirka","tag-obituary","tag-pennsylvania","tag-perkasie","tag-suess-gahman-funeral-home-crematory-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131261","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=131261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}