{"id":208507,"date":"2026-06-02T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208507\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:03:22","slug":"theodore-parfitt-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208507\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Parfitt Obituary &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tTheodore R. Parfitt, Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Theodore R. Parfitt, Jr., 70, of Bethlehem Township, passed away May 19, 2026. He was the husband of Debra A. (Reitenauer) Parfitt.<\/p>\n<p>\nBorn in Fountain Hill, Ted was the son of the late Theodore R. Sr. and Jacqueline (Van Billiard) Parfitt.<\/p>\n<p>\nTed was employed as an engineering technician at FLSmidth for many years before retiring.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurvivors: Wife Debra; children Theodore III, Brian, and Elizabeth Newcomb, all of Bethlehem; grandchildren Kaleb and Carter Newcomb, Jacqueline Parfitt Werkheiser, Kailee Galarza and Tyler Morgan. He was preceded in death by his sister Linda Parfitt Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices: 1 PM Friday, June 5, in the Pearson Funeral Home, 1901 Linden Street, Bethlehem, followed by inurnment in Bethlehem Memorial Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Theodore R. Parfitt, Jr. OBITUARY Theodore R. Parfitt, Jr., 70, of Bethlehem Township, passed away May 19, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-208507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208507","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=208507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}