\t\t\tLandy Burkland, Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Landy Burkland Jr., 24, of Moosic Heights, passed away Monday, April 6, 2026, at the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital following injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. His fianc is Kiersten Royce.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Scranton, he was the son of April Phillips Newton and Matthew Newton. A graduate of Riverside High School, Class of 2019, and Career Technology Center, he worked as an auto mechanic.<\/p>\n
\nHe enjoyed working on cars, fishing with his friend Nathan and spending time with his friends and family.<\/p>\n
\nAlso surviving are sister Lillian Newton, several aunts, uncles, and cousins<\/p>\n
\nHe was preceded in death by maternal grandmother Esther Phillips; paternal grandparents Richard and Shirley Newton.<\/p>\n
\nFuneral services will be held Saturday at 11 am in the Miller Bean Funeral Home Inc., 436 Cedar Ave., Scranton. Family and friends may celebrate Landy\u2019s life from 9 am until time of service. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, https:\/\/diabetes.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nPlease visit the funeral home website to leave an online condolence.<\/p>\n \nLandy Burkland, Jr.<\/p>\n \nApril 6, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Landy Burkland, Jr. OBITUARY Landy Burkland Jr., 24, of Moosic Heights, passed away Monday, April 6, 2026, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-161686","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\/161686","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=161686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}