{"id":166531,"date":"2026-04-15T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:22:07","slug":"elderly-man-dies-while-fishing-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166531\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man dies while fishing \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published April 15. 2026 10:01AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">An 87-year-old man from Heidelberg Township was found deceased in the waters of Jordan Creek in North Whitehall Township on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">According to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office, William O. Arner was found facedown in the area beneath the Geiger Covered Bridge at 9:10 a.m. and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Friday at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center to assist in determining the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The coroner\u2019s office said in its report that Arner reportedly had gone fishing, an activity he routinely enjoyed in an area with which he was familiar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">When he did not return home, family members became concerned and notified the Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The incident remains under investigation by the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center and state police from the Bethlehem barracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 15. 2026 10:01AM An 87-year-old man from Heidelberg Township was found deceased in the waters of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-166531","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\/166531","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=166531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}