{"id":225638,"date":"2026-06-23T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225638\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:31:08","slug":"barbara-mcgimpsey-obituary-allentown-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225638\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara McGimpsey Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tBarbara (Griffith) A. McGimpsey \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Barbara A. McGimpsey, 89, of Allentown, died Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at the Atrium of Allentown. She was the wife of the late Frank J. McGimpsey, with whom she shared 68 years of marriage. Born in Allentown, she was the daughter of the late Walter F. and Alma L. (Koch) Griffith. Before retiring, she worked as a medical receptionist assisting with insurance claims. Prior, she was a homemaker raising her family. She will be remembered for her love of needle point, cross stitch and knitting, which she then donated for children.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurvivors: sons, Brian J. and his wife Theresa of Emmaus, Keith A., and his wife Sherri of New Tripoli; daughter, Karen L., wife of Thomas Kistler of Alburtis; grandsons, Frank McGimpsey II, and Nicholas Kistler, granddaughters, Amanda McGimpsey, Kayleigh Kistler, Alissa Oliver and her husband Austin, and Laura McGimpsey; great grandson, Maverick Oliver and great granddaughter Rose Oliver. She was predeceased by her brother Walter and infant sister Gloria.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices will be private at the convenience of the family.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Parkinson\u2019s Foundation, c\/o Trexler Funeral Home, 1625 W. Highland St. Allentown, PA 18102. Condolences may be offered at <a href=\"http:\/\/trexlerfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trexlerfuneralhome.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara (Griffith) A. McGimpsey OBITUARY Barbara A. McGimpsey, 89, of Allentown, died Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-225638","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\/225638","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=225638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}