\t\t\tWilliam Joseph Griffin, Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
William Joseph Griffin, Jr., 80, of Scott Township, died peacefully at home on Sunday morning. He was the widower of Lynn Alva Griffin, who died in 2021. The couple had been married 54 years.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Scranton, he was the son of the late William Joseph Griffin, Sr. and the late Ann Moses Griffin. Prior to his retirement, he was a machinist for over 30 years for General Dynamics. His love of The Lord, led him to become a founding member of the Evangelical Free Bible Church in Waverly.<\/p>\n
\nSurviving are two daughters, Brenda Griffin and Cara Slocum, husband Roy, both of Scott Township; a brother, James Griffin of Greenfield Township; and his sister Karen Schwank of Allentown; six grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
\nHe was preceded in death by his brother, John Griffin; and a sister, Ann Williams.<\/p>\n
\nArrangements have been entrusted to Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., Clarks Summit.<\/p>\n
\nWilliam Joseph Griffin, Jr.<\/p>\n
\nApril 12, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Joseph Griffin, Jr. OBITUARY William Joseph Griffin, Jr., 80, of Scott Township, died peacefully at home on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-166281","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\/166281","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=166281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}