{"id":219294,"date":"2026-06-15T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:30:12","slug":"robert-c-blanchard-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219294\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert C. Blanchard \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tRobert C. Blanchard \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Robert C. Blanchard, 87, of Newport News, VA, passed away Saturday, May 30, 2026. His wife of almost 68 years is the former Frances Kloss.<\/p>\n<p>\nBorn in Scranton, he was the son of the late Anthony and Anna Gike Blanchard. He was a graduate of Scranton Technical High School, Class of 1955, and The University of Scranton, Class of 1959. He was recruited by NASA and he was employed by the agency for 42 years as an Aerospace Engineer. Bob enjoyed golf and cribbage and spending time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso surviving are four children and four grandchildren. He was also preceded in death by two brothers; Joseph and Anthony and his sister Dorothy Spogli.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe funeral was held Tuesday in St. Jerome\u2019s Catholic Church. For more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/WeymouthFuneralHome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WeymouthFuneralHome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nRobert C. Blanchard<\/p>\n<p>\nMay 30, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert C. Blanchard OBITUARY Robert C. Blanchard, 87, of Newport News, VA, passed away Saturday, May 30, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-219294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219294","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=219294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}