{"id":106889,"date":"2026-02-06T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106889\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:40:09","slug":"debra-linton-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106889\/","title":{"rendered":"Debra Linton Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tDebra A. Linton (Kalnoski) \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Debra A. Linton (Kalnoski), 71, of Reading, passed January 31st in Reading Hospital surrounded by her loving family.<\/p>\n<p>She was the wife of the late Milton Herbert Linton.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Reading, PA, she was the daughter of the late Stanley C. and Miriam R. (Wishnieski) Kalnoski.<\/p>\n<p>Debra graduated from Holy Name High School and knew early she had a passion for caring for others. She began her career as a candy striper at Community General Hospital while attending nursing school to become a Licensed Practical Nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Her career in nursing spanned over forty years specializing in senior living care.<\/p>\n<p>Debra enjoyed cooking and sharing her recipes with her friends and family. Debra enjoyed traveling with her husband, gardening, spending time with her children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Debra lived a deeply spiritual life, offering daily prayers, not only for herself but for the peace, healing, and well-being of everyone she loved, met, and even those she never met personally.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her children; daughter, Melissa (Linton) Nye, wife of Robert R. Nye; daughter, Amy (Linton) Wahl, wife of Robert Wahl; daughter, Jennifer (Linton) Myers; son, Michael Linton, husband of Lori (Singerman) Linton. There are also eleven grandchildren; Nolan, Gavin, Ethan and Declan Nye, Leo and Lucy Myers, Caleb, Connor, and Hannah Linton, and Aidan and Hailey Wahl. She is also survived by a brother, Michael Kalnoski, husband of Patricia. She was predeceased by a sister, Carolyn (Kalnoski) Gerloff.<\/p>\n<p>A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday, February 7th at 11 AM in St. Catherine of Siena RCC. A viewing will be held at Henninger Funeral Home, 229 N. 5th St., Reading on Saturday from 8 to 10 AM. Eulogies will begin at 9:30 at the funeral home. Procession to Mass will depart promptly following the Eulogies.<\/p>\n<p>Interment will follow Mass in Forest Hills Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debra A. Linton (Kalnoski) OBITUARY Debra A. Linton (Kalnoski), 71, of Reading, passed January 31st in Reading Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-106889","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\/106889","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=106889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}