{"id":120932,"date":"2026-02-23T02:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:56:13","slug":"donald-strause-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120932\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Strause Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tDonald L. Strause \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Donald L. Strause, 94, passed away Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 1:00 am<\/p>\n<p>at Reading Hospital. He was the husband of Shirley A. (Heller) Strause to whom<\/p>\n<p>he was married for 71 years. Born in Reading, he was the son of the late<\/p>\n<p>Raymond G. and Emma A. (Einsel) Strause. Donald served in the United States<\/p>\n<p>Navy and was a long-time employee of Wilson Safety Products and retired<\/p>\n<p>following several years at Advanced Tool and Design. In addition to his wife, he is<\/p>\n<p>survived by his children Donald L. Strause, Jr. husband of Theresa Strause of<\/p>\n<p>Leesport; Jody L. Pastor wife of Jan Pastor of Bentonville, Arkansas; and Kristin J.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin wife of Kevin Goodwin of Wernersville with whom he last resided. He is<\/p>\n<p>also survived by 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Graveside Service will be held at the convenience of the family at Forest Hills<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Park with Military Honors rendered by the United States Navy Honor<\/p>\n<p>Guard. Bean Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory 3825 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring is in<\/p>\n<p>charge of arrangements and online condolences may be made at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beanfuneralhomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.beanfuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald L. Strause OBITUARY Donald L. Strause, 94, passed away Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 1:00 am at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-120932","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\/120932","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=120932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}