{"id":138750,"date":"2026-03-15T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138750\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:55:07","slug":"joyce-handwerk-obituary-allentown-pa-1938-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138750\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Handwerk Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PA (1938-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJoyce A. Handwerk \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Joyce A. Handwerk, 87, of Allentown, passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2026 in St. Luke\u2019s Hospice House, Lower Saucon Township. She was the wife of the late Charles J. Handwerk, Jr., who died in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Longswamp Township, Berks County, she was a daughter of the late Jonathan and Minerva Mae (Boyer) Reinert. Joyce worked in assembly at Rodale Manufacturing for 20 years until retiring. Her greatest joy was caring for her family and babysitting her grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors: Son, Keith L. Braim and his wife Pamela of Salisbury Township; daughter, Rosaline F. Reinert of Allentown; sister, Grace Bales; brother, James Reinert; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Services: There will be no services at Joyce\u2019s request. Arrangements are entrusted to the K.V. Knopp Funeral Home, Allentown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joyce A. Handwerk OBITUARY Joyce A. Handwerk, 87, of Allentown, passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2026 in&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-138750","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\/138750","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=138750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138750\/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=138750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}