{"id":166135,"date":"2026-04-15T04:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:56:13","slug":"shirley-hertzog-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166135\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Hertzog Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tShirley Mae Hertzog \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Mae Hertzog, 89, of Leesport, died April 10, 2026 at Tower Health-Reading Hospital, West Reading.<\/p>\n<p>She was the widow of Paul Hertzog who died August 15, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Born September 17, 1936, in Reading, she was a daughter of the late Lewis W. and Pearl A. (Ulrich) Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley was employed with East Penn Manufacturing for 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>She was a past member of New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, New Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving are her two children: Terry L. Schaeffer, husband of Donna L. of Leesport and Cindy M., wife of Scott K. Yenser of Wilmington, NC.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two grandchildren: Tracy L. Kreiser, wife of Dale and Justin R. Yenser, husband of Jessica, and a great grandson, Kyle D. Kreiser.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she is survived by her two sisters: siblings: Barbara, wife of Robert Johnson of Greenwich Township; and Betty Musser of Topton.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley was preceded in death by three siblings: Robert W. Miller, Dale L. Miller, and Helen Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be held Thursday, April 16th at 11 a.m. at Stitzel Family Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory, Inc., 423 Main Street, Oley.  A viewing will be held from 10-11 a.m.  Burial will be at Maidencreek Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>For online condolences, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shirley Mae Hertzog OBITUARY Shirley Mae Hertzog, 89, of Leesport, died April 10, 2026 at Tower Health-Reading Hospital,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-166135","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\/166135","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=166135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}