{"id":311475,"date":"2026-10-22T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311475\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:14:10","slug":"gary-l-talijan-chemical-operator-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311475\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary L. Talijan \u2013 chemical operator \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 21. 2026 01:04PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Gary L. Talijan, 86, of Bethlehem Township, died Oct. 9, 2026 in St. Luke\u2019s Hospice House in Bethlehem. He was a son of the late Michael and Louise (Catone) Talijan, and the husband of Rosemarie (McCluskey) Talijan since 1960.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was a 1959 graduate of Liberty HS, where he wrestled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was a chemical operator with Hoffman-La Roche in Belvidere, NJ before retirement. Earlier he was employed as a dye foreman with Flock Industries and employed with Ingersoll-Rand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was an avid sports fan of high school football and wrestling, in particular Phillipsburg HS and Liberty HS. He was an exceptional craftsman and could fix just about anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Alpha, where he also served as an Usher for many decades; the Garnet Booster Club; and the Steele Hill Boys Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In addition to his beloved wife, he is survived by: sons Gary (wife, Sharlene) and Blair (wife, Gina); a sister, Maureen Encarnacion; his four granddaughters; and two great-grandsons; nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Arrangements were made by Devlin Funeral Home, Phillipsburg, NJ.<\/p>\n<p>None<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 21. 2026 01:04PM Gary L. Talijan, 86, of Bethlehem Township, died Oct. 9, 2026 in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-311475","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\/311475","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=311475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}