{"id":287425,"date":"2026-09-16T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287425\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:30:10","slug":"ronald-herm-w-spengler-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287425\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald \u2018Herm\u2019 W. Spengler \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 16. 2026 09:00AM<\/p>\n<p>former Northampton council president<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Ronald \u201cHerm\u201d W. Spengler, 82, of Northampton, died Sept. 8, 2026, at home. He was the husband of Jane M. Spengler for 57 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Born in Northampton, he was a son of the late Willard and Dorothy (Jacoby) Spengler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He worked for the former Universal Atlas Cement Company for 12 years and later worked for Northampton Area High School for 26 years until retiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was a council member for Northampton Borough\u2019s First Ward and was president of the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was a member of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Northampton, where he worked as a custodian and volunteered wherever needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Michael W. and wife Susan; a daughter, Kathleen L. Schaeffer and husband Brett; six grandchildren; and a sister, Nancy Tracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was predeceased by a brother, Richard; and a sister, Carol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Contributions may be made to Lehigh Valley Hospice or to the church, 2181 Washington Ave., Northampton, 18067.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Arrangements were made by Reichel Funeral Home Inc., Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>None<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 16. 2026 09:00AM former Northampton council president Ronald \u201cHerm\u201d W. Spengler, 82, of Northampton, died Sept.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-287425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287425","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=287425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}