{"id":274992,"date":"2026-08-30T03:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:26:13","slug":"community-honors-master-sergeant-paul-welby-at-funeral-in-west-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274992\/","title":{"rendered":"Community honors Master Sergeant Paul Welby at funeral in West Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County community gathered to honor Master Sergeant Paul Welby, who passed away after battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County\u00a0<\/a>community paid their final respects to a soldier who served our country.<\/p>\n<p>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>Welby passed away on August 21st after about a year-long battle with cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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":"The Lackawanna County community gathered to honor Master Sergeant Paul Welby, who passed away after battling cancer. SCRANTON,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-274992","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\/274992","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=274992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}