{"id":10867,"date":"2025-10-22T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10867\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:17:07","slug":"howard-lorah-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10867\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Lorah Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tHoward S. Lorah, Sr. \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Howard \u201cDutch\u201d \u201cSonny\u201d S. Lorah, Sr., 89, of Lancaster, died on October 18, 2025 after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>He was married to the late Patricia Wilson Lorah for 53 years before her death in 2021.  The son of the late Howard B. and Mary E. Lorah.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his children Robert Lorah, Samuel Lorah, Gary Baum, Gregory (Joan) McCauley and Kari (Tim) Bost; 14 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife and parents, he was predeceased by his brothers; Harry, Warren, Marvin and Richard Lorah as well as his children; David Lorah, Jeffery Baum and Linda Lorah.<\/p>\n<p>He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Boston.<\/p>\n<p>He was employed by Queen Dairy of Lancaster then Hammond Pretzel Bakery until his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>A graveside service will be held on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:00 am at Leacock Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 3181 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise, PA 17562.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hospice &amp; Community Care,  P.O. Box 4125 Lancaster, PA, 17604.    To leave an online condolence, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DeBordSnyder.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.DeBordSnyder.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard S. Lorah, Sr. OBITUARY Howard \u201cDutch\u201d \u201cSonny\u201d S. Lorah, Sr., 89, of Lancaster, died on October 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-10867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867","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=10867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}