{"id":269246,"date":"2026-08-21T03:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:04:16","slug":"james-martin-obituary-allentown-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269246\/","title":{"rendered":"James Martin Obituary &#8211; Allentown, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJames B. Martin \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>James B. Martin, 81, of Center Valley, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 15, 2026, of natural causes. He was the son of the late John J. and Clare (Enright) Martin. Jim served as the Lehigh County District Attorney for over 25 years until retiring in 2024. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 34 years Patricia Mack Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\nJim is survived by 2 daughters and their mother, 2 step-children and 6 grandchildren along with many colleagues and lifelong friends.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices: There will be a visitation on Thursday from 4 \u2013 7 pm and Friday from 9:30 \u2013 10:30 am with funeral service to follow, all at Heintzelman-Stephens Funeral Home, P.C., 274 N. Krocks Rd., Allentown 18106. Please share online condolences at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heintzelmanstephens.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.heintzelmanstephens.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAdditional information will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James B. Martin OBITUARY James B. Martin, 81, of Center Valley, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 15,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-269246","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\/269246","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=269246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}