Today's Obituaries
David Bernet
Reading, PA
David C. Bernet, 79, of Spring Twp., passed away Friday, August 18, 2017, at 10:10 a.m. in his home. He was the husband of Dolores E. (Bachman) Bernet. Born in Douglassville, Mr. Bernet was the son of the late John Samuel Bernet and Pearl Olivia (Kulp) Bernet. He was the...
Joan Ernst (Grabosky)
Reading, PA
Joan Lee Ernst, 74, of Shillington, passed away Saturday, August 19, 2017, at 9:42 a.m. in her home. She was the wife of the late Barry J. Ernst who passed away July 15, 2010. Born in Reading, she was the daughter of the late Adolph W. and June (Dissinger) Grabosky, and...
Betty Gilbert (Bortz)
Reading, PA
Betty June (Bortz) Gilbert, 83, of Reading, passed away August 18, 2017, in Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She was the wife of the late Roy Fies Gilbert. The couple were married 64 years before Roy passed in 2014. Born in Reading, on July 9, 1934, she was a daughter of...
Carol Wagner (Aungst)
West Reading, PA
Carol Anne Wagner, 71, of Wyomissing, passed away on August 18, 2017, in the Reading Hospital. She was the widow of Charles O. Wagner who passed away on February 25, 2016. They were married on July 28, 1973. Born in Pottsville, she was the daughter of the late ...
Yesterday's Obituaries
Pep Bohn
Reading, PA
Pep Bohn, 66, of Exeter Township, passed away Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. in his home. He was a devoted and loving husband of 44 years to Patricia A. (Morrison) Bohn. Born in Schuylkill County, Pep was the son of the late Stella (Albert) Bohn. He was employed...
Lorraine Brubaker (Garber)
West Reading, PA
On August 17, 2017, Lorraine B. Brubaker, 86 years old, of Sinking Spring, Pa., joined her beloved husband of 57 years, W. L. "Roy" Brubaker. Lorraine was at home surrounded by the loving support of her family with her dog Buddy by her side. Lorraine was the daughter of T....
Joseph Drogo
Reading, PA
Joseph D. Drogo, 94 of Birdsboro, passed away Friday, August 18, 2017 in the Berkshire Center. He was the husband of the late Theresa (Grabowski) Drogo, who passed away on February 4, 2003. Born in Evansville, Pa., he was a son of the late Jesse and Concetta (Peri)...
Anne Farris (Girvin)
Emmaus, PA
Anne Girvin Farris, daughter of Dorothy and Robert Girvin passed away August 6, 2017 in Plano, TX. She was born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 28, 1931. She attended and graduated from Mount Penn High School, Mount Penn, Pa., then studied at Albright College, Reading, Pa.,...
George Gehring
West Reading, PA
George D. Gehring, 91, passed away August 17, 2017, in Berkshire Commons. He was the beloved husband of Marie L. (Periandri) Gehring. Born in Stony Creek, he was the son of the late George S. and Edna (Kline) Gehring. George was a United States Navy veteran serving during...
James Helm
Reading, PA
James C. Helm, 93, of Keystone Villa at Fleetwood, passed away Monday, August 14, 2017, at 9:55 p.m. in Manor Care Health Services, Muhlenberg Township. He was the husband of Anita M. (Dry) Helm. Born in Lancaster, Mr. Helm was the son of the late Paul and Edith (Moore)...
Raymond Keller
Reading, PA
Raymond Wixon Keller, 90, of Temple, died August 14, 2017, at Berks Heim, Bern Twp. He was the husband of Susan Rebecca (Schultz) Keller, who he married November 3, 1962. Born October 7, 1926, in Reading, he was a son of the late Raymond and Elsie Mae (Wixon) Keller. ...
David Ludwig
Womelsdorf, PA
David Engle Ludwig passed away on June 1, 2017 in Delray, Fla. Born on September 3, 1961, in West Reading, he was the son of the late Patricia (Engle) Ludwig and Lewis Ludwig. He was a graduate of Wyomissing High School and Kutztown University. Surviving David are his...
Michael Miller
Mohnton, PA
LCDR Michael Luke Miller, 69 passed away on Friday, July 28, 2017 in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was the husband of Linda Mae (Deysher) Miller. Born in West Reading, he was a son of the late Carl and Ruth (Ludwig) Miller. Michael graduated from Governor Mifflin High School...
Anna Riegel (O'Neill)
West Reading, PA
Anna M. (O'Neill) Riegel, 95, passed away Wednesday, August 16, 2017, in her Reading residence surrounded by her loving family. She was the beloved wife of Lloyd H. Riegel, who died April 22, 2006, and with whom she celebrated 64 years of marriage. Born in Philadelphia,...
Nellie Sipe (Smith)
Palmyra, PA
Nellie A. (Smith) Sipe, 89, of South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, passed away Thursday, August 17, 2017 in the M. S. Hershey Medical Center. Born March 2, 1928 in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Mamie (Weidner) Smith, and...
William Smith
Reading, PA
William C. Smith, 90, of Reading, passed away Saturday, August 12, 2017, in his home. He was the husband of Grace L. (Seidel) Smith. Born in Reading, Mr. Smith was the son of the late William A. Smith and Leona D. (Wolf) Kiwak. He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in...
Harold Stauffer
Mount Pleasant Mills, PA
Harold S. Stauffer, 86, of Freeburg went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, August 18, 2017 at the Brookline Manor, Mifflintown. Friends and family are invited to the viewing on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at...
Joyce Ulrich (Ohnmacht)
Reading, PA
Joyce L. Ulrich, 87, formerly of West Lawn passed away in her daughter's Spring Township residence. Her husband Thomas J. Ulrich passed away on October 2, 1997. Joyce was born in West Reading on July 21, 1930, a daughter of the late Wern Moyer and Sally (Eberly) Ohnmacht. ...
Carmen Yoder (Keinard)
Emmaus, PA
Carmen D. Yoder, 87, of Phoebe-Allentown, formerly of Emmaus, passed away on Thursday, August 17, 2017 at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. She was the wife of the late Robert W. Yoder, who passed away in 2007. Born in Birdsboro, Pa., she was the daughter of the...
Paul Zimmerman Jr.
Ringtown, PA
Paul Zimmerman, Jr., 84, of Ringtown, passed away Friday, August 18th, 2017. Paul was born in Ashland on June 21, 1933, a son of the late Lorraine (Moyer) and Paul Zimmerman Sr. He attended local schools, then worked as a pipe fitter for Bechtel Construction and was a...
August 19, 2017 Obituaries
Vincent Bellman
Reading, PA
Vincent Kurtz Bellman, 95, passed away August 15th in his Amity Township residence. He was the loving companion of Raymonda Valletta with whom he resided. Vince was predeceased by his wife, Goldie (Weinhold) Bellman who passed in 2005. Born in West Reading, Pa., he was...
Bruce Bredbenner
Bethlehem, PA
Bruce Y. Bredbenner, 84, of Bethlehem, was surrounded by the love of his family when he peacefully passed away on Thursday, August 17, 2017, at St. Luke's Hospice House,, Bethlehem. He was the husband of the late Elsie (Souders) Bredbenner, and the companion of the late...
Marion Fisher (Batzel)
Lebanon, PA
Marion M. Fisher, 91, of Reading, died Thursday, August 17, 2017 in ManorCare, Sinking Spring. Marion was born in South Heidelberg Township to the late Jacob and Emma (Batzel) Fisher. Per family request, there will be no services. Thompson Funeral Home Inc. is entrusted...
Isaac Valentin
Wernersville, PA
Isaac A. "Ice" Valentin, 22, of Reading passed away on Tuesday, August 15, 2017. He was born in Reading on June 4, 1995. He was a 2012 graduate of Reading High School and Charlie Haynes Barber School. Ice was currently a Barber at All Stars Bar ber Shop in Sinking...
