{"id":182782,"date":"2026-05-03T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:10:07","slug":"robert-kelchner-obituary-new-tripoli-pennsylvania-1927-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182782\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kelchner Obituary &#8211; New Tripoli, PENNSYLVANIA (1927-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tRobert A. Kelchner \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Robert A. Kelchner, 99, of Allentown, passed Sunday, April 26, 2026, at Atrium of Allentown. He was the husband of the late Evelyn R. (Stratz). Born in Allentown, he was the son of the late Margaret (Lane) and Robert F. Kelchner and was a 1945 graduate of Allentown High School. Earning the rank of corporal, Robert was an Army veteran of World War II and, prior to retiring, was employed at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\n Survivors: daughters, Diane (Keith), Debbie; son, Glenn (Anna); grandchildren, Christina, Matthew, Kyle, Trisha, Amanda; six great grandchildren; two great great granddaughters. Robert was preceded in death by daughter, Carol Reifinger, and granddaughter, Michele.<\/p>\n<p>\n Services: 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":"Robert A. Kelchner OBITUARY Robert A. Kelchner, 99, of Allentown, passed Sunday, April 26, 2026, at Atrium of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-182782","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\/182782","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=182782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}