{"id":79948,"date":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","slug":"kenneth-saff-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79948\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Saff Obituary &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tKenneth H. Saff, Sr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth H. Saff,  Sr., 103 of Bethlehem passed away on January 3, 2026.  He was the husband of Jean (Springer) Saff for 63 years until her passing on  June 7, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\nKenneth was born in  Kane, PA on June 6, 1922, son of the late  Andrew and Esther (Tengstrand) Saff.  He served in the Army Air Corps during  World War II  and flew A 20\u2019s during the Philippines Liberation.  Kenneth also served in the Pennsylvania National Guard, where he learned to fly helicopters.  Kenneth graduated from Penn State in 1950 with a BS in Agriculture and always remained an avid Penn State Fan.  He was Post Office Clerk for the United States Postal Service retiring after many years.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is survived by his daughters Karen Yellin wife of  Stanley of Bethlehem, Rebecca J. Sweeney wife of Robert of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, son Kenneth H. Saff, Jr. husband of Benita of Aston, PA, nine grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.   He was predeceased by 10 brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>\nA Time of Remembrance will be on Friday January 9, 2026 at 11AM with a visitation from 10AM to 11AM all at the Herron Funeral Home 458 Center At Market Streets Bethlehem, PA  18018.  Burial with  Military Honors will be at a later date in Riegelsville Cemetery.     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Herronfuneralhomecares.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.Herronfuneralhomecares.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nContributions in his memory to the Wounded Warrior Project , www.woundedwarriorproject.org  or to the Center for Animal Health and Wellness, www.healthyanimalcenter.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenneth H. Saff, Sr. OBITUARY Kenneth H. Saff, Sr., 103 of Bethlehem passed away on January 3, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-79948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79948","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=79948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}