{"id":490886,"date":"2026-01-04T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:37:16","slug":"obituary-for-luke-w-kline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490886\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary for Luke W. Kline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KLINE, LUKE W., 36, Nicktown, passed away January 2, 2026, at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh.\u00a0 Born February 14, 1989, in Indiana, PA, the son of Mark and Alma (Dumm) Kline, of Carrolltown.\u00a0 Survived by parents, loving wife of 13 years, Alexa \u201cLexy\u201d (Pawlowski) Kline; and children, Sophia, Emilia, Henry, Thomas, and Peter, all of Nicktown. Brother of Sharon Kline, Carrolltown; Libby (Matt) Gueguen, Nicktown; Maria (Kevin) Stoyka, Nicktown; Abby (Greg) Verbosky, Colver; Jake Kline, Carrolltown; Anna (Brad) Farabaugh, Nicktown; and Jude Kline, Carrolltown.\u00a0 Also survived by father-in-law and mother-in-law, Randy and Brenda (Kirsch) Pawlowski, Sr., Nicktown; brother-in-law, Randy Pawlowski, Jr., Nicktown; nieces and nephews, Claire, Paul, Andrew, Alice, Ruth, Billy, Liam, and Ben, and numerous aunts and uncles.\u00a0 Member of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, in Nicktown.\u00a0 Luke was employed with his family\u2019s business, Kline\u2019s Tree Farm in Carrolltown, where he took great pride in his work as a tree farmer.\u00a0 He cherished every moment with his family, who meant everything to him.\u00a0 Luke enjoyed coaching his children\u2019s basketball teams.\u00a0 He will be lovingly remembered by all who knew him as a devoted son, husband, father, brother, and uncle whose warmth and care touched everyone around him.\u00a0 Family and friends will be received from 2 \u2013 4 p.m. and 5 \u2013 8 p.m., Thursday, January 8, 2026, at Moriconi Funeral Home, Inc., Northern Cambria.\u00a0 Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m., Friday, January 9, 2026, at St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church.\u00a0 Fr. Jeremiah Lange Ph.D., O.S.B. and Fr. Job Foote, O.S.B., concelebrating.\u00a0 Committal, St. Nicholas Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\n                            To <a style=\"color:red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moriconifuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Luke-Kline\/sympathy\" class=\"send-flower-link\" data-tag=\"send-flower-promo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">send flowers<\/a><br \/>\n                            to the family or <a style=\"color:rgb(64, 108, 79) !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moriconifuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Luke-Kline\/1080629\/memorial-tree\" data-tag=\"plant-a-tree-promo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plant a tree<\/a><br \/>\n                            in memory of Luke W. Kline, please <a style=\"color:rgb(255, 90, 95)\" class=\"visit-flower-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moriconifuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Luke-Kline\/sympathy\" data-tag=\"visit-floral-store-promo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our floral store.<\/a>\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KLINE, LUKE W., 36, Nicktown, passed away January 2, 2026, at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh.\u00a0 Born February 14,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[89219,31723,89218,89223,89221,89214,221325,89225,89224,89216,59,221324,50,89222,89217,67,132,89220,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-490886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-caskets","10":"tag-cremation","11":"tag-embalming","12":"tag-funeral-arrangement","13":"tag-funeral-flowers","14":"tag-funeral-home","15":"tag-funeral-home-in-northern-cambria-pa","16":"tag-funeral-planning","17":"tag-funeral-pre-arrangement","18":"tag-funeral-services","19":"tag-inc","20":"tag-moriconi-funeral-home","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-pre-need","23":"tag-traditional-funeral-service","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-urns","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115834745284652234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}