{"id":102355,"date":"2026-02-01T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102355\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:48:08","slug":"linda-williams-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102355\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Williams Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tLinda L. Williams \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Linda L. Williams, 80, of Temple, passed away on Wednesday, January28, 2026.  She was the wife of Ralph L. Williams, who died July 27, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Virginville, she was the daughter of the late Edgar A. and Gladys M. (Mengle) Burkert.  Linda worked for Cinderella and Springford Knitting Mills and last for Elbeco.<\/p>\n<p>She enjoyed gardening and loved her dogs and cats.<\/p>\n<p>Linda is survived by her daughter: Cristal A. Williams, Temple.  She was predeceased by her brother: Donald C. Burkert.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be held on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:00 am at Leibensperger Funeral Homes, Inc., 223 Peach Street, Leesport.  Burial will follow in<\/p>\n<p>Laureldale Cemetery.  A viewing will be held on Tuesday from 6:00 to 8:00 pm and Wednesday 10:00 to 11:00 am in the funeral home.  In lieu of flowers, <\/p>\n<p>memorial contributions may be sent to Alzheimer\u2019s Association, 399 Market Street, Suite 250, Philadelphia, PA 19106.  For online condolences, please<\/p>\n<p>visit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leibenspergerfuneralhomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.leibenspergerfuneralhomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linda L. Williams OBITUARY Linda L. Williams, 80, of Temple, passed away on Wednesday, January28, 2026. She was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-102355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102355","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=102355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}