{"id":95847,"date":"2026-01-24T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:18:09","slug":"raymond-ballard-obituary-1934-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95847\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Ballard Obituary &#8211; (1934-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tRaymond C. Ballard \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Raymond C. Ballard, 91,of Bethlehem, passed away Jan. 21, 2026. He enjoyed hunting, golf and traveling. He was a member for 60 years of Perry Lodge 458 F&amp;AM; Bethlehem Lodge 283; Tall Cedars of Lebanon and Bethlehem; Scottish Rite Valley of Allentown and Rajah Shrine.  He is survived by his daughters, Charlann Warmkessel (Terry), Monda Bilger (Mark); son-in-law, Peter Grazer; 2 grandchildren and their spouses and 6 Great grandchildren.  Preceded in death by his parents, wife, Janice; daughter, Raylene Grazer; and companion, Vangie Noll.<\/p>\n<p>\nServices: Relatives and friends are invited to  his visitation on Wednesday, Jan.28th from 6:30-8:00PM followed by a Masonic Service at 8:00PM at JAMES FUNERAL HOME, 527 Center St. Bethlehem. Burial-Woodlawn Cemetery, Harrisburg. Full obit: www.jamesfuneralhome.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raymond C. Ballard OBITUARY Raymond C. Ballard, 91,of Bethlehem, passed away Jan. 21, 2026. He enjoyed hunting, golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-95847","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\/95847","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=95847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}