{"id":147122,"date":"2026-03-24T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:55:11","slug":"carol-smith-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147122\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Smith Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tCarol  M. Smith \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Carol Mary Ravel Smith, 77, of Mohnton, PA, passed away peacefully on March 19, 2026, at the Matthew House in Auburn, NY.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Reading, PA, on December 25, 1948, Carol was the beloved daughter of the late Floyd and Mary (Yaklich) Ravel.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her daughters, Tracie Mercado and her husband, Gerry, and Christie Schwab and her husband, John; her sister, Marilyn \u201cJean\u201d Bingaman; her brother, Barry Ravel; her grandchildren, Christopher Dorsey Jr., Ciara Mercado, Alexander Mercado, Olivia Schwab, and Lyric Wassmer; and her great-granddaughter, Sophia Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her parents, Carol was preceded in death by her son, David Wassmer Jr., and her brothers, Floyd \u201cBud\u201d Ravel Jr. and Ronald Ravel.<\/p>\n<p>Per Carol\u2019s wishes, no formal funeral service will be held. A celebration of life will take place at a later date, with details to be shared with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be offered at <a href=\"http:\/\/whitechapelfh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">whitechapelfh.com<\/a>. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Matthew House through their website, matthewhouse.org and by selecting the \u201cdonate\u201d option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carol M. Smith OBITUARY Carol Mary Ravel Smith, 77, of Mohnton, PA, passed away peacefully on March 19,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-147122","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\/147122","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=147122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}