{"id":274918,"date":"2026-08-29T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274918\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:50:17","slug":"community-honors-master-sergeant-paul-welby-at-funeral-in-west-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274918\/","title":{"rendered":"Community honors Master Sergeant Paul Welby at funeral in West Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Lackawanna County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lackawanna County\u00a0<\/a>community paid their final respects to a soldier who served our country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A funeral procession entered Cathedral Cemetery along Oram Street in West Scranton as friends, family, and local officials prepared to honor Master Sergeant Paul Welby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Welby passed away on August 21st after about a year-long battle with cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He served in the Pennsylvania National Guard for 19 years and was a member of various veterans&#8217; programs in scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County\u00a0community paid their final respects to a soldier who served our country. A funeral procession entered Cathedral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[43212,115490,115489,115151,178,180,179,115150],"class_list":["post-274918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-19-years","tag-august-21st","tag-cathedral-cemetery","tag-paul","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-welby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274918","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=274918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}