{"id":102399,"date":"2026-02-01T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:48:07","slug":"michael-gross-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102399\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gross Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tMichael Gross \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gross, 77, of Muhlenberg Township, passed away Thursday, January 22, 2026 at his residence. <\/p>\n<p>He was the widower of Arvilla Gross who passed away in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Born November 18, 1948 he was the son of the late Francis Eugene Gross and June H. Becker. <\/p>\n<p>Michael was a  1966 graduate of Reading High School. After graduating from high school he went on to obtain his associates degree from Penn State. <\/p>\n<p>During his working years he was employed at Dana Corporation for over 30 years as an electrician. <\/p>\n<p>In Michael\u2019s free time he loved tinkering and fixing electronic objects. He was an electronic hobbyist and always enjoyed working. <\/p>\n<p>He is survived by three brothers: John Gross, widower of Brenda Gross of Exeter Township; Stephen Gross of Laureldale; and Christopher Gross of Laureldale. <\/p>\n<p>A service will be held Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 12 p.m. at the Stitzel Family Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory Inc., Laureldale. A viewing will take place prior from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the same location. Burial will follow the service and will take place at Gethsemane Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to Holy Guardian Angels RCC. <\/p>\n<p>Stitzel Family Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory Inc., Laureldale, is in charge of arrangements. <\/p>\n<p>For online condolences please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Gross OBITUARY Michael Gross, 77, of Muhlenberg Township, passed away Thursday, January 22, 2026 at his residence.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-102399","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\/102399","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=102399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}