{"id":283644,"date":"2026-09-11T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283644\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:32:09","slug":"these-are-the-lehigh-valley-victims-of-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283644\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the Lehigh Valley victims of 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of people with ties to the Lehigh Valley and Poconos region who died in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/tag\/9-11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9\/11 terrorist attacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Carbon County<\/p>\n<p>Timothy O\u2019Sullivan, Albrightsville, consultant for Cultural Institutions Retirement System<\/p>\n<p>Robert Allan Schlegel, Alexandria, Virginia, commander in the Navy, had ties to Palmerton<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County<\/p>\n<p>Alan Merdinger, South Whitehall Township, accountant at Cantor Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p>William C. Sugra, Salisbury Township, worked for eSpeed<\/p>\n<p>Monroe County<\/p>\n<p>Harry Blanding, Blakeslee, worked for AON Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Flounders, Middle Smithfield Township, worked for Euro Brokers<\/p>\n<p>George Lopez, Jackson Township, worked for Fiduciary Trust<\/p>\n<p>Mary Melendez, Hamilton Township, worked for Fiduciary Trust<\/p>\n<p>Walter McNeil, Middle Smithfield Township, Port Authority police officer<\/p>\n<p>Martin Wortley, Park Ridge, New Jersey, former East Stroudsburg University football player, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County<\/p>\n<p>Laura Snik, Washington Township, worked for AON Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Supinski, Forks Township, worked for Sandler O\u2019Neill &amp; Partners<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Ann Deuel, formerly of Bath, worked for Carr Futures<\/p>\n<p>Brian Warner, Pen Argyl, worked for eSpeed<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County<\/p>\n<p>Noell Maerz, Lansdale, worked for Euro Brokers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a list of people with ties to the Lehigh Valley and Poconos region who died in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[115842,119,121,120,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-283644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-9-11","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283644","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=283644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}