\t\t\tGene R. Smith \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Gene R. Smith, 87, of Center Valley, passed away on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at Cedarbrook Nursing Home in Allentown. His loving wife of 61 years, Gloria (Palmieri) Smith, passed away on 2020. Born in Allentown, he was the son of the late Raymond and Elsie (Hinkle) Smith.<\/p>\n
\nSurvivors: Children, Michael Smith and his wife Pam (Emmaus), David Smith and his wife Mary Gail (Whitehall) and Lisa Bolton and her husband Tom (Fogelsville); Brother, Donald Smith of Lakeland, FL; 7 Grandchildren; and 13 Great-Grandchildren.<\/p>\n
\nServices: Memorial, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, 2026, at Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral Home, 17th & Hamilton Streets, Allentown. A visitation will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home. Please visit www.bkrfh.com<\/a> for full obituary.<\/p>\n \nContributions: In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation in Gene\u2019s name to the American Diabetes Association at www.diabetes.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gene R. Smith OBITUARY Gene R. Smith, 87, of Center Valley, passed away on Saturday, May 9, 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-193246","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\/193246","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=193246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}