{"id":155568,"date":"2026-04-02T17:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:58:51","slug":"dolores-novak-obituary-allentown-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155568\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Novak Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tDolores M Novak \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dolores M. Novak (Messina) of Allentown,<\/p>\n<p>\npassed away on March 29, 2026 in Lehigh Valley<\/p>\n<p>\nHospital Salisbury Twp., Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe celebrated 52 yrs of marriage with her<\/p>\n<p>\nhusband John Novak. Dolores was the daughter<\/p>\n<p>\nof the late Vincent and Mary (De Nicola) Messina<\/p>\n<p>\nand proud of her Italian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\nBorn in Bethlehem Dolores was employed by the<\/p>\n<p>\nEmpire Schools of Beauty; was an owner of a<\/p>\n<p>\nBeauty Salon and was a Notary Public all in<\/p>\n<p>\nAllentown.<\/p>\n<p>\nDolores was a long standing member of the<\/p>\n<p>\nCathedral Church of St Catharine of Siena.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurvivors: her husband: John Novak, nieces<\/p>\n<p>\nand nephews; great and great great nieces and<\/p>\n<p>\nnephews. She was predeceased by siblings:<\/p>\n<p>\nRose Ronca, Horace and Peter Messina, Mae<\/p>\n<p>\nDorward, Carmela Claroni and Gloria Corina.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices: A Mass of Christian Burial will be held<\/p>\n<p>\nApril 9, Thursday at 11:00 am at Cathedral St.<\/p>\n<p>\nCatharine of Siena Church, 18 th &amp; Turner Sts.,<\/p>\n<p>\nAllentown.<\/p>\n<p>\nInterment: in Cedar Hill Memorial Park,<\/p>\n<p>\nAllentown.<\/p>\n<p>\nContributions: St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research<\/p>\n<p>\nHospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN<\/p>\n<p>\n38105, or perform an act of<\/p>\n<p>\nkindness.<\/p>\n<p>\nArrangements by the Robert C Weir<\/p>\n<p>\nFuneral Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolores M Novak OBITUARY Dolores M. Novak (Messina) of Allentown, passed away on March 29, 2026 in Lehigh&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-155568","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\/155568","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=155568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155568\/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=155568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}