\t\t\tMichael James Margotta \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Michael James Margotta, 78, died Thursday morning in Spring Hill, Florida.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Scranton he was the son of the late James and Anne Lombardo Margotta. He was a graduate of Blakely High School, class of 1965, Lackawanna Junior College, and Simmons Mortuary School. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
\nHe is survived by his wife Michele, a son James, Spring Hill, a daughter Gina Friedman Matua, NJ; his sisters Mary Jean Margotta and Roseann Gilgallon; a nephew Mark Fanucci, a niece Marlena Shamon; two great nieces and one great-great nephew.<\/p>\n
\nPrivate funeral services will be held in Florida.<\/p>\n
Michael James Margotta<\/p>\n
\nJuly 30, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael James Margotta OBITUARY Michael James Margotta, 78, died Thursday morning in Spring Hill, Florida. Born in Scranton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-259048","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\/259048","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=259048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}