\t\t\tJohn A. Wells Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
John A. Wells Jr., age 77, passed away on June 22, 2026, at Geisinger Community Medical Center. His wife of 61 years is the former Susan Schmidt.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Scranton, he was the son of the late John A. Sr. and Edna Ives Wells.<\/p>\n
\nJohn took great pride in his work as a farmer, and he was a logger for many years. His animals were his whole life.<\/p>\n
\nHe is survived by his daughter, Susan and husband Leroy Henry of Scranton; son, John Wells III and girlfriend Judy Schatz of Ransom Township; daughter, Ann Marie Wells of Ransom Township; and son William Wells and girlfriend Jocelyn Branas of Scranton; sister, Frances and husband Henry Makowski of Scranton; sister-in-law Dorothy Wells of Ransom Township. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
\nHe was preceded in death by his brother, Donald Wells.<\/p>\n
\nServices will be held on Thursday, June 25, from 5 to 7 pm at the Solfanelli-Fiorillo Funeral Home Inc., 1030 N. Main Avenue, Scranton. Friends and family may pay their respects from 5 pm until time of service.<\/p>\n
\nJohn A. Wells Jr.<\/p>\n
\nJune 22, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John A. Wells Jr. OBITUARY John A. Wells Jr., age 77, passed away on June 22, 2026, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-226767","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\/226767","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=226767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}