{"id":363564,"date":"2026-07-07T04:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:10:17","slug":"zachariah-boywa-apela-july-7-1977-june-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363564\/","title":{"rendered":"Zachariah Boywa Apela &#8211; July 7, 1977 &#8211; June 28, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zachariah Boywa Apela, 48, of Hatfield, PA, died Sunday, June 28, 2026. He was the beloved husband of Loice Ogada Boywa. Born July 7, 1977, in Nairobi, Kenya, he was a son of the late Richard and Penina (Nyawalo) Apela. Zak was employed as a personal care assistant with Grand View Hospital for many years. He was a longtime member of Pennridge Christian Fellowship, Blooming Glen, PA. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughters, Penina Odeny Boywa, Phoebe Auma Boywa, and Sophie Atieno Boywa; three brothers, Dr. George, Rev. Alfred, and Albert; four sisters, Millicent, Mary, Neleah, and Dr. Pauline; and a large extended family. Burial will be in the Apela Family Cemetery, Ahero, Kenya. To send a flower arrangement in memory of Zachariah Boywa Apela, please click here to visit our sympathy store.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>View more details from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedfordmemorialfuneralhome.com\/obituary\/zachariah-apela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">funeral home site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zachariah Boywa Apela, 48, of Hatfield, PA, died Sunday, June 28, 2026. He was the beloved husband of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2070,3191],"class_list":["post-363564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-obituary","tag-syndication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}