\t\t\tJoan E. Eckhart \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Mrs. Joan E. (Derricott) Eckhart, 95, of Fleetwood, passed away on Thursday, August 20, 2026 at Penn State Health, St. Joseph Medical Center, Bern Township, PA.<\/p>\n
Born April 21, 1931 in Mahanoy City, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Ethel (Wall) Derricott. Her husband of 67 years, John E. \u201cJack\u201d Eckhart, passed away on February 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
Joan is survived by her son, David J. Eckhart, husband of Staci L. (Fick) Eckhart, Fleetwood, her grandchildren, Dana M. (Eckhart) Wendt, wife of Dan C. Wendt, Fleetwood, and Laura D. (Eckhart) Farkas, wife of Jared H. Farkas, North Whitehall Twp, and by her great-grandchildren, Lily and Brady.<\/p>\n
Along with her parents and her husband, Jack, Joan was preceded in death by her daughter, Deborah Delaney, and her grandson, Ryan Delaney.<\/p>\n
Services for Joan will be held privately by her family. Burial will take place in Arlington Memorial Park, Whitehall, PA. Walbert Funeral Home & Crematory, Fleetwood, is honored to be caring for Joan and her family. Messages of comfort and sympathy can be offered at www.WalbertFuneralHome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan E. Eckhart OBITUARY Mrs. Joan E. (Derricott) Eckhart, 95, of Fleetwood, passed away on Thursday, August 20,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-275080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275080","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=275080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}