{"id":108442,"date":"2026-02-08T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:53:08","slug":"ann-riegel-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108442\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Riegel Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tAnn M. Riegel \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ann M. (Speicher) Riegel, of South Heidelberg Township, 82, passed away Thursday, February<\/p>\n<p>5, 2026 at the Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Stouchsburg, she was the daughter of the late Charles G. and Ruth M. (Kissling)<\/p>\n<p>Speicher. She was the wife of the late John G. Riegel, who passed away Jan. 30, 2001. She was<\/p>\n<p>companion of Raymond W. Weinhold Jr. until his passing on April 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ann was a member of North Heidelberg UCC.<\/p>\n<p>She was a 1960 graduate of Conrad Weiser High School and a graduate of Reading Business<\/p>\n<p>Institute. She worked for Defense Contract Administrative Services Region of Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>(stationed locally) from 1962-1970. She owned and operated Boulder Lake Store, Galen Hall<\/p>\n<p>Rd., Wernersville from 1971-1981. Worked for John G. Riegel Coal Co. from 1981-2001. Also<\/p>\n<p>South Heidelberg School Census Enumerator 1985 thru 2001. Worked for Sheetz, Inc., Sinking<\/p>\n<p>Spring, Oct. 2001 until retirement in Nov. 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Ann loved to play the organ and was a member of Keys to Life at Keyboard World at the<\/p>\n<p>Fairgrounds Square Mall. Ann was a member of the Robesonia Fire Co. since 1964. She loved<\/p>\n<p>working in the flower beds and gardening.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by a daughter, April A. (Riegel) Bohn; a son, John N. Riegel, husband of Cathy<\/p>\n<p>Brown-Riegel; a stepson, Gregory Riegel, husband of Jennifer (Babiak); two grandchildren,<\/p>\n<p>Kyrsten Bohn and Caroline Riegel; and two step grandchildren, Gavin, and Abbey Riegel.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be held at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, Feb. 11th , at Lamm &amp; Witman Funeral Home,<\/p>\n<p>243 W. Penn Ave., Wernersville. A viewing will be held from 10-11:00 AM, Wednesday, at the<\/p>\n<p>funeral home. Burial will be in North Heidelberg Cemetery. Online condolences may be made<\/p>\n<p>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lammandwitman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.lammandwitman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Reading Musical Foundation, PO<\/p>\n<p>Box 14835, Reading, PA 19612.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann M. Riegel OBITUARY Ann M. (Speicher) Riegel, of South Heidelberg Township, 82, passed away Thursday, February 5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-108442","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\/108442","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=108442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}