{"id":307662,"date":"2026-10-16T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307662\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:26:12","slug":"jerry-a-warmkessel-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307662\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry A. Warmkessel Obituary &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJerry A. Warmkessel \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Jerry A. Warmkessel, 68, of Allentown, passed away Sunday, October 11, 2026, at Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Cedar Crest. He was the husband of Gwen C. (Bortz) Warmkessel to whom he was married 37 years. Born in Allentown, June 26, 1958, Jerry was the son of the late Robert L. and Shirley J. (Steckel) Warmkessel. He was the Vice-President and General Manager of Trifecta Technologies in Allentown for 9 years before retiring in 2021. Prior to that, Jerry worked at the former Day-Timers, Inc. in East Texas as Director of E-Commerce for 16 years. Jerry was a member of Cedar Union Church in Cetronia. An avid outdoorsman, Jerry loved hunting, camping and golfing. He also enjoyed bowling in a league at Jordan Lanes for many years.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurvivors: In addition to his loving wife, Gwen; children, Joseph A. Warmkessel of Allentown, Gregory A. Warmkessel (Kurstin) of Leesport, Lisa C. Warmkessel of Allentown; grandson, Waylon A. Warmkessel; sisters, Kathy L. Armellino (Maurice) of Allentown, Debbie A. Haas (George) of Bethlehem; many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>\nFuneral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 17, 2026, at the Heintzelman-Stephens Funeral Home, P.C., 274 North Krocks Road, Allentown, PA. Family and friends may pay their respects from 1:00 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m. prior to the service. Online expressions of sympathy may be recorded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heintzelmanstephens.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.heintzelmanstephens.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nContributions: In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Andy Derr Foundation for Kidney Cancer Research, P.O. Box #57, Fogelsville, PA 18051.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerry A. Warmkessel OBITUARY Jerry A. Warmkessel, 68, of Allentown, passed away Sunday, October 11, 2026, at Lehigh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-307662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307662","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=307662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}