{"id":259000,"date":"2026-08-04T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:00:20","slug":"obituary-for-harold-j-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259000\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary for Harold J. Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold J. Murray, 75, of Scranton, PA, a loving husband, father, grandfather, friend, and lifelong mechanic, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on the morning of August 3rd, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving are Diane, his wife of 54 years; his sister, Gloria Spano; his children, Francis Murray and Kimberly Biggs (John); his grandchildren, Kyle Biggs and Michelle Cooper (Jesse); and his great-grandchildren, Kade and Camron Cooper. A memorial service will be held at Savino Traditional Funerals &amp; Cremation Care, 157 S. Main Ave., Scranton, on Thursday, August 6th, from 4 to 6 pm, with a service at 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p>\n                            To <a style=\"color:red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nepafuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Harold-Murray\/sympathy\" class=\"send-flower-link\" data-tag=\"send-flower-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">send flowers<\/a><br \/>\n                            to the family or <a style=\"color:rgb(64, 108, 79) !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nepafuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Harold-Murray\/1068479\/memorial-tree\" data-tag=\"plant-a-tree-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plant a tree<\/a><br \/>\n                            in memory of Harold J. Murray, please <a style=\"color:rgb(255, 90, 95)\" class=\"visit-flower-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nepafuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Harold-Murray\/sympathy\" data-tag=\"visit-floral-store-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit our floral store.<\/a>\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harold J. Murray, 75, of Scranton, PA, a loving husband, father, grandfather, friend, and lifelong mechanic, passed away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[307,315,313,314,319,317,309,310,321,320,311,308,318,178,180,179,312,316],"class_list":["post-259000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-carlucci-golden-desantis-funeral-home","tag-caskets","tag-cremation","tag-embalming","tag-funeral-arrangement","tag-funeral-flowers","tag-funeral-home","tag-funeral-home-in-dunmore-pa","tag-funeral-planning","tag-funeral-pre-arrangement","tag-funeral-services","tag-inc","tag-pre-need","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-traditional-funeral-service","tag-urns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259000","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=259000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}