{"id":117264,"date":"2026-02-18T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117264\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:27:07","slug":"laura-schaeffer-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117264\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Schaeffer Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tLaura F. Schaeffer \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Laura F. Schaeffer, 103, of Birdsboro, PA, passed away at home on Thursday, February 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Born on March 8, 1922, in Kulptown, PA, she was the daughter of the late Raymond Kohl and Mabel Kohl.<\/p>\n<p>Laura worked at AT&amp;T Technologies as an etcher until retirement. She volunteered at the gift shop at Saint Joseph\u2019s Hospital on 12th St. in Reading. She was in a bowling league at Bowl-A-Rama for many years.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her daughter, Linda  L. Matthews, wife of Dennis J. Matthews of Douglassville, PA; seven grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren and her cat Susie.<\/p>\n<p>She was predeceased by her loving husband, Leon M. Schaeffer and daughters Luanne and Lois Schaeffer.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service will be held on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at 11:00 AM at Sanders Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 1501 N. 11th St., Reading.<\/p>\n<p>A viewing will be held 10:00 AM \u2013 11:00 AM prior to the service.<\/p>\n<p>Burial will be at Forest Hills Memorial Park, 390 West Neversink Rd., Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be made at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandersfuneral.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.sandersfuneral.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura F. Schaeffer OBITUARY Laura F. Schaeffer, 103, of Birdsboro, PA, passed away at home on Thursday, February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-117264","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\/117264","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=117264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}