{"id":179152,"date":"2026-04-29T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:42:16","slug":"susan-sirbak-obituary-allentown-pennsylvania-1951-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179152\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Sirbak Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA (1951-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tSusan Bayer C. Sirbak \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Susan Catherine Sirbak, 74, of Macungie PA, passed away peacefully April 21, 2026, with her family by her side. She was born November 26, 1951, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown PA to John \u201cJack\u201d and Catherine \u201cKay\u201d Bayer, nee Kleinlein. Susan grew up in Bethlehem PA before moving to Allentown where she graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1969. She went on to earn a teaching degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>\n Susan married Joseph Paul Sirbak on December 12, 1975 at Saint Thomas More Catholic Church and together they raised four boys. She is survived by her loving husband of 50 years, \u201cJoe,\u201d children, Joseph II, John and his wife, Lauren, Thorne, and Todd and his wife, Kristen, six grandchildren, Angelena, Aurora, Joseph III, Emma, Annie, and Theodore, and brother, Christian Bayer and his wife, Sue.<\/p>\n<p>\n Susan loved gardening, genealogy, playing games, and, most of all, her family. She filled our lives with love and compassion and she will be dearly missed.<\/p>\n<p>\n In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Saint Thomas More School or Saint Thomas More Church.<\/p>\n<p>\n Services will be private. Arrangements entrusted to Heintzelman \u2013 Stephens Funeral Home, P. C. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heintzelmanstephens.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.heintzelmanstephens.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Bayer C. Sirbak OBITUARY Susan Catherine Sirbak, 74, of Macungie PA, passed away peacefully April 21, 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-179152","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\/179152","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=179152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}