{"id":214428,"date":"2026-06-09T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214428\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:22:05","slug":"howard-pitkoff-obituary-allentown-pa-1937-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214428\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Pitkoff Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PA (1937-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tHoward Pitkoff \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Howard Pitkoff, 88, of Allentown, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family on Sunday, June 7, 2026. He and his wife, Jane (Landau) Pitkoff, celebrated 38 years of marriage on June 5th. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of the late Nathan and Tillie Pitkoff. Howard was a member of Congregation Keneseth Israel in Allentown and was a veteran of the United States Army. He was the former owner and operator of Consolidated Carpet Mills of Allentown for 35 years. Howard was an avid Philadelphia sports fan, especially cheering on his Phillies. He also enjoyed his time volunteering for Jewish Family Service of Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurvivors: Wife, Jane; Daughter, Randi Bosler and her husband, Christopher; Sons, Mark Pitkoff and Barry Pitkoff and his wife, Donna; Step-Daughter, Wendy Zeitlin and her husband Juan Nunez; Step-Son, Andrew Zeitlin and his wife, Susan; 11 Grandchildren; 4 Great-Grandchildren; and Brother, Walter Pitkoff. He was preceded in death by a Sister, Roberta; and Brother, Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices: Graveside, 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at Keneseth Israel Cemetery, Allentown. Arrangements by Bachman, Kulik &amp; Reinsmith Funeral Home, Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>\nContributions: In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation in Howard\u2019s name to Jewish Family Service of LV at 2004 W. Allen Street, Allentown, PA 18104 or to Lehigh Valley Hospice, 2024 Lehigh Street, Allentown, PA 18103.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard Pitkoff OBITUARY Howard Pitkoff, 88, of Allentown, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-214428","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\/214428","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=214428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}