{"id":112927,"date":"2026-02-13T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112927\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:47:08","slug":"lee-posey-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112927\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Posey Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tLee H. Posey \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lee H. Posey, 81, of Cumru Township, passed away Tuesday, February 10,<\/p>\n<p>2026, at 3:30pm at Reading Hospital. He was the husband of Joanne M.<\/p>\n<p>(Kovach) Posey. Born in Reading, Mr. Posey was the son of the late<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Posey III and Gertrude (Zettlemoyer) Posey. He was a member of<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Park United Methodist Church and served in the United States<\/p>\n<p>Army during the Vietnam Era. Mr. Posey graduated from Governor Mifflin<\/p>\n<p>High School in 1962, received a Bachelor of Science degree in<\/p>\n<p>Mathematics\/Physics from Albright College in 1966, and earned his<\/p>\n<p>Master\u2019s Degree in Engineering Science from the Pennsylvania State<\/p>\n<p>University in May 1988. He was employed by AT&amp;T as a computer<\/p>\n<p>engineer until his retirement and then worked as a driver for Piazza Auto<\/p>\n<p>Group in Reading for 10 years. In addition to his wife, Mr. Posey is<\/p>\n<p>survived by his children, Heather J. Kostival, wife of Darren R. Kostival, of<\/p>\n<p>Cumru Township; Alexander T. Posey, husband of Kim M. (Reese) Posey,<\/p>\n<p>of Exeter Township; Alyssa L. Herbert, wife of Donald G. Herbert, of Cumru<\/p>\n<p>Township; Jessica H. Gerhart, wife of Ralph A. Gerhart, Jr., of Robeson<\/p>\n<p>Township, his grandchildren, Daniel, Benjamin, Sierra, Meigin, Lauren,<\/p>\n<p>Emma, Andrew, and Madalynn, and his great grandchildren Brooks and<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth. He is also survived by his siblings John Posey of Pleasanton,<\/p>\n<p>California, and Susan Stires, wife of Kinne Stires, of Wiscasset, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Celebration of Life Service will be held at Bean Funeral Homes &amp;<\/p>\n<p>Cremation Services at 129 East Lancaster Avenue, Shillington, PA, on<\/p>\n<p>Monday, February 16, 2026, at 11:30am. Reverend Dr. Quentin Wallace<\/p>\n<p>will officiate. Military Honors will be rendered by the United States Army<\/p>\n<p>Honor Guard at 11:20 am. The family will receive relatives and friends on<\/p>\n<p>Monday from 9:00am to 11:20am. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be<\/p>\n<p>made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD<\/p>\n<p>21741 or Lincoln Park United Methodist Church, 1 Carlisle Avenue,<\/p>\n<p>Reading, PA 19609, in memory of Mr. Lee H. Posey. Online condolence<\/p>\n<p>may be made at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beanfuneralhomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.beanfuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee H. Posey OBITUARY Lee H. Posey, 81, of Cumru Township, passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-112927","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\/112927","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=112927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}