{"id":253122,"date":"2026-07-27T19:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:01:51","slug":"coroner-seeking-next-of-kin-for-south-whitehall-man-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253122\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner seeking next of kin for South Whitehall man | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner is seeking the next of kin for a South Whitehall Township man.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the coroner\u2019s office, 61-year-old Jesse James Colfer was pronounced dead on Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 3:25 a.m. in the Emergency Department at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner says Mr. Colfer died of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that may assist in locating his family is asked to contact the office at 610-782-3426 or by email at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/coroner-seeking-next-of-kin-for-south-whitehall-man\/mailto:danielbuglio@lehighcounty.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">danielbuglio@lehighcounty.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner is seeking the next of kin for a South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,3819,107966,1024,107967,85232,18143,107968,664],"class_list":["post-253122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-death-notice","tag-jesse-james-colfer","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-lehigh-valley-hospital-cedar-crest","tag-natural-causes","tag-next-of-kin","tag-public-appeal","tag-south-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253122","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=253122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}