{"id":131102,"date":"2026-03-06T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:47:16","slug":"elizabeth-kunkleman-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131102\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Kunkleman Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tElizabeth C. Kunkleman \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth C. Kunkleman, 97, of Spring Township, passed away Monday, November 17,<\/p>\n<p>2025 at the Reading Hospital. She was preceded in death by her first husband Norman<\/p>\n<p>S. Carles, January 30, 2015 and by her second husband Brooke A. Kunkleman,<\/p>\n<p>September 8, 1994. Born in Tulpehocken Township, Mrs. Kunkleman was the daughter<\/p>\n<p>of the late Charles E. and Amy E. (Wilhelm) Eiler. She was a member of Saint Ignatius<\/p>\n<p>Loyola Roman Catholic Church and was employed by Berks County Home-Berks Heim<\/p>\n<p>as a Nursing Assistant for 15 years until her retirement in 1993. Mrs. Kunkleman was a<\/p>\n<p>Master Bridge Player and an avid Phillies fan. She is survived by her sons George E.<\/p>\n<p>Carles husband of Debra M. of Bernville and Amandon J. Carles husband of Karen of<\/p>\n<p>Leesport; daughters Amy R. wife of Kenneth A. Noecker of Bernville and Mary C. wife of<\/p>\n<p>Craig A. Day of Reinholds. Also loved by her 8 grandchildren, 5 step grandchildren<\/p>\n<p>and 24 great grandchildren. Mrs. Kunkleman is also survived by her sister Sara A. wife<\/p>\n<p>of the late Joseph Kress of Lancaster and was preceded in death by her siblings Mary<\/p>\n<p>L. Peiffer, William E. Eiler, John W. Eiler and her foster sister Shirley Bashore.<\/p>\n<p>Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Saint Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic<\/p>\n<p>Church 2600 St. Alban\u2019s Drive, Sinking Spring, Monday, November 24, 2025 at 12:00<\/p>\n<p>pm. Interment will follow at Host Church Cemetery. The family will receive relatives and<\/p>\n<p>friends at Saint Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church Monday from 11:00 am to 11:45<\/p>\n<p>am. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Arthritis Foundation PO Box 96280,<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC 20077 in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Kunkleman. Bean Funeral<\/p>\n<p>Home, 3825 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring is in charge of arrangements and online<\/p>\n<p>condolences 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":"Elizabeth C. Kunkleman OBITUARY Elizabeth C. Kunkleman, 97, of Spring Township, passed away Monday, November 17, 2025 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-131102","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\/131102","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=131102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}