{"id":247354,"date":"2026-07-19T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:53:07","slug":"john-kessler-obituary-allentown-pennsylvania-1945-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247354\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kessler Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA (1945-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJohn C. \u201cJack\u201d Kessler, Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John C. \u201cJack\u201d Kessler, Jr., 80, of Allentown, passed away on July 14, 2026 at the Lehigh Valley Hospice Inpatient Unit, Allentown. He was the husband of Ginger G. (Godshall) Kessler and they celebrated 32 years of marriage on June 25. Born in Allentown, he was the son of the late John C. Kessler, Sr. and Margaret C. (Burdock) Kessler. Jack graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School, Class of 1963, and he was a member of The Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena, Allentown. Jack was a senior clerk for the PA Liquor Control Board in the Lehigh Valley for 35 years until retiring.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurvivors: Wife; Grandson, James R. Lawrence; Brother, Gerald R. Kessler and his wife, Carol; Son-In-Law, Glenn Finicle. Jack was predeceased by his step-daughter, Deborah Finicle; sister, Sandra Salvatore; and nieces, Cheryl Keller and Wendy Benner.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices: 3 PM Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at Bachman, Kulik &amp; Reinsmith Funeral Home, 17th &amp; Hamilton Streets, Allentown. A viewing will be held from 2-3 PM Tuesday in the funeral home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BKRFH.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.BKRFH.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIn lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Peaceable Kingdom, 1049 MacArthur Road, Whitehall, PA 18052.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John C. \u201cJack\u201d Kessler, Jr. OBITUARY John C. \u201cJack\u201d Kessler, Jr., 80, of Allentown, passed away on July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-247354","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\/247354","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=247354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}