{"id":266248,"date":"2026-08-16T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266248\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:20:07","slug":"eugene-fisher-obituary-macungie-pennsylvania-1935-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266248\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Fisher Obituary &#8211; Macungie, PENNSYLVANIA (1935-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tEugene A. Fisher \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Eugene A. \u201cGeno\u201d Fisher, 91, of Macungie, passed away on Friday, August 7, 2026, surrounded by his family. Born in Dayton, OH, he was a son of the late Marguerite E. (Brant) and Eugene E. Fisher and husband of 65 years to Jeanne (Kasecamp) Fisher. Geno was a graduate of Fairmont High School where he was inducted into their sports hall of fame. He was a 1958 graduate of USMA, West Point, NY, where he excelled as a two-sport athlete. An Army veteran of the Vietnam War, Geno was stationed in Laos and earned the rank of captain. In his spare time, he was an American Legion baseball coach, poker player, as well as an avid supporter of the Eagles and Phillies. Geno took great pleasure in spending time with his wife and family. He loved his dogs and feeding the birds.<\/p>\n<p>\n One of Geno\u2019s favorite memories was facing the NY Giants in an exhibition baseball game. He had the honor of pitching against two MLB Hall of Fame players, Red Schoendienst and Willie Mays, with the latter going 0 for 2 against him.<\/p>\n<p>\n Survivors: He is survived by his son, Gene (Sandy); daughter, Jana (Tom); son, Kyle (Dusti); sister, Krista Lawhorn (Rick); grandchildren, Rob, Jen, Michael, Sarah, Matthew, Amy; great grandchildren, Kyle, Charlie, Hannah, Ethan, Miles; and many nieces and nephews. Gene was preceded in death by daughter, Julie, and brothers, Steve and Jon.<\/p>\n<p>\n Contributions: In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to SPCA \u2013 Allentown PA.<\/p>\n<p>\n The family is arranging a private celebration of life. Arrangements entrusted to Heintzelman \u2013 Stephens Funeral Home, P. C. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heintzelmanstephens.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.heintzelmanstephens.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eugene A. Fisher OBITUARY Eugene A. \u201cGeno\u201d Fisher, 91, of Macungie, passed away on Friday, August 7, 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-266248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266248","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=266248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}