{"id":126571,"date":"2026-03-01T05:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:57:06","slug":"lynn-ernst-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126571\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Ernst Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tLynn E. Ernst \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lynn E. Ernst, 85, of Edenburg, Windsor Twp., passed away on Thursday, February 26, 2026 in Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n<p>She was the wife of Ralph P. Ernst, who died November 8, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Born in West Reading, she was the daughter of the late Irwin and Verna (Gruber) Henne. Lynn was a 1958 graduate of Hamburg High School. She worked as a payroll clerk at Pennsylvania Steel and various other companies. <\/p>\n<p>Lynn was a member of St. John\u2019s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hamburg, where she was a choir member for more than fifty-five years. <\/p>\n<p>Lynn is survived by two daughters: Monica E. (Martin) Capitella, Hamburg; and Mindy L. (Martin) Rabert, wife of Keith Rabert, Kempton; three grandchildren: Jeret Reber, Daniel Capitalla and Andrea Capitella; and one great-grandson: Bryson Capitella.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be held on Wednesday at 2:00 pm at St. John\u2019s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 99 Church Street, Hamburg, PA 19526.  There will be a visitation with the family from 1:00-2:00 pm. Burial will be private in St. John\u2019s Cemetery, Hamburg. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the church at the above address. <\/p>\n<p>Leibensperger Funeral Homes, Inc., Hamburg is in charge of arrangements.  For online condolences, please visit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leibenspergerfuneralhomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.leibenspergerfuneralhomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lynn E. Ernst OBITUARY Lynn E. Ernst, 85, of Edenburg, Windsor Twp., passed away on Thursday, February 26,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-126571","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\/126571","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=126571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}