{"id":247446,"date":"2026-07-20T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:24:06","slug":"richard-laudenslager-obituary-allentown-pennsylvania-1947-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247446\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Laudenslager Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA (1947-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tRichard F. Laudenslager Jr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Richard F. Laudenslager Jr. passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2026, in Allentown, PA. He was 78.<\/p>\n<p>Son of the late Richard F. Laudenslager Sr. and Paula K. (nee Erdos), Richard was born October 14, 1947, in Drexel Hill, PA.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of William Allen High School (1965) and Lycoming College (1969), where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Richard started RFL Lawn Service at age 13, then went on to own and operate Laudenslager Excavating and RFL Construction. He loved to sail, ride motorcycles, and paint his dreams. He could build anything and had a particular affinity for working with wood.<\/p>\n<p>Richard is survived by his three children \u2013 Chip Roper (Long Island City), Virginia Ellen (Allentown), and Andrew Lauden (Saucon Valley) \u2013 as well as his sister Karen L. McDermott (France), brothers Jeffrey Laudenslager and Rick Laudenslager (Allentown), seven grandchildren, ten foster grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and six nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service is planned for 10:30AM on Saturday, July 25, 2026 at Jerusalem Western Salisbury Church, 3441 Devonshire Rd, Allentown, PA 18103. Condolences may be offered at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.WalbertFuneralHome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.WalbertFuneralHome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard F. Laudenslager Jr. OBITUARY Richard F. Laudenslager Jr. passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2026, in Allentown,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-247446","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\/247446","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=247446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}