{"id":132980,"date":"2026-03-08T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:45:07","slug":"richard-f-dick-roche-jr-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132980\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard F. \u2018Dick\u2019 Roche, Jr. \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tRichard F. \u2018Dick\u2019 Roche, Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Richard F. Dick Roche, Jr., 88 of Scranton passed away Thursday, February 12th, 2026 at home surrounded by his wife of 68 years, Roberta Jackson Roche and family.<\/p>\n<p>\nDick was born in Scranton, son of the late Richard F. Sr. and Mary Donahue Roche, was a faithful Catholic, worked as a truck and bus driver and was the best friend.<\/p>\n<p>\nPrivate services for the family were entrusted to the Donahue Funeral Home, 303 S. Main Ave., Scranton, PA 18504 [<a href=\"http:\/\/scrantonfuneralservices.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scrantonfuneralservices.com<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>\nRichard F. \u2018Dick\u2019 Roche, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\nFebruary 12, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard F. \u2018Dick\u2019 Roche, Jr. OBITUARY Richard F. Dick Roche, Jr., 88 of Scranton passed away Thursday, February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-132980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132980","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=132980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}