{"id":138740,"date":"2026-03-15T05:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:31:06","slug":"paul-kern-obituary-allentown-pa-1942-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138740\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kern Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PA (1942-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tPaul M. Kern, Sr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Paul M. Kern, Sr., 83, of Allentown, died on March 12th in his home. He was the husband of Helen M. (Wesley) Martin Kern and the late Louise C. (Gaal) Kern. He is also survived by a daughter; Paula M. Hero (Frank Seier); sons, Paul M. Kern, Jr. and Michael D. Martin (Dawn); sisters, Catherine L. Snyder (Robert), Mary A. Moyer (Edward), Nancy M. Martin; brother-in-law, Bradford D. \u201cSmokey\u201d Martin; 4 grandchildren and 1 great-granddaughter. A funeral service will be at 11 AM on Friday, March 20, 2026 in the K.V. Knopp Funeral Home, 46 E. Susquehanna Street, Allentown, with a viewing from 10-11 AM. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvknoppfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.kvknoppfuneralhome.com<\/a> for the full obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul M. Kern, Sr. OBITUARY Paul M. Kern, Sr., 83, of Allentown, died on March 12th in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-138740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138740","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=138740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}