{"id":218948,"date":"2026-06-14T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:33:10","slug":"robert-mease-obituary-1949-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218948\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mease Obituary &#8211; (1949-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tRobert D. Mease \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Robert D. Mease, 76, of Bethlehem, passed away on June 9, 2026. He was the husband of Janis (Rodenbach) Mease.<\/p>\n<p>\nBorn in Bethlehem, he was the son of the late William and Grace (Huber) Mease.<\/p>\n<p>\nA member of Grace Church Bethlehem, Robert served as pastor of St. Mark\u2019s UCC, Allentown, as well as a long career with ATT and its subsidiaries. He also proudly served as a First Lieutenant in the Army National Guard and reserves.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurviving are two daughters, Erin Ference, (Daniel), of Winter Garden, FL and Jennifer Goodpaster, (David) of Jamison, PA, sisters; Nancy Simpson, (Charles) and Jane Seasholtz (Jeff), both of Bethlehem, and 5 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices will be held in the Pearson Funeral Home, 1901 Linden St., Bethlehem, on Monday, June 15, at 11:00 am. Calling hours are Sunday, June 14, 4-5:30 pm and Monday 10 am until services.<\/p>\n<p>\nMemorials may be sent to Grace Church, 4301 Hecktown Rd., Bethlehem, PA 18020, or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, PO BOX 5028, Hagerstown, MD 21741-9901. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/pearsonfh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pearsonfh.com<\/a> for a detailed obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert D. Mease OBITUARY Robert D. Mease, 76, of Bethlehem, passed away on June 9, 2026. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-218948","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\/218948","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=218948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}