{"id":166626,"date":"2026-04-15T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:13:16","slug":"miriam-kachel-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166626\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Kachel Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tMiriam S. Kachel \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Miriam S. Kachel, 100, of Garden Spot Village, formerly of<\/p>\n<p>Wyomissing, passed away peacefully April 2, 2026, with family by her<\/p>\n<p>side.<\/p>\n<p>She was the loving wife of the late Harold L. Kachel who passed<\/p>\n<p>away in 2014, after 55 years of marriage and was the daughter of the late<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Henry A. and Lillian B. (Greutman) Saneholtz of Shillington.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam graduated from Sunbury H.S. in 1943 and furthered her<\/p>\n<p>education with additional Penn State courses. She retired in 1988 from<\/p>\n<p>Albright College where she worked as an administrative assistant to the<\/p>\n<p>registrar. Miriam also worked at Met-Ed and Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co. After<\/p>\n<p>retirement she volunteered at the Reading Hospital, Reading Public<\/p>\n<p>Museum and Berks County Parks. She was a member of West Lawn U.M.<\/p>\n<p>Church<\/p>\n<p>Miriam will be deeply missed by her family including her two sons \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Alan E. Kachel, Kenhorst and Craig L. Kachel husband of Lisa King-<\/p>\n<p>Kachel, Brownstown; three grandchildren \u2013 Allison, Jansen and Madeline.<\/p>\n<p>She is the last surviving member of her family of five brothers and sisters<\/p>\n<p>and is also survived by several nieces.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam\u2019s Celebration of Life service will be held on Thursday, April 9,<\/p>\n<p>2026, at 11:00 AM with Pastor Chet Yoder officiating at The Chapel at<\/p>\n<p>Garden Spot Village, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland, PA 17557.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation with the family will begin at 10:30 AM. Interment in Fairview<\/p>\n<p>Cemetery, Shillington, will be private.<\/p>\n<p>The Kachel family would like to thank the nurses and staff at<\/p>\n<p>WellSpan Ephrata and Hospice &amp; Community Care for their<\/p>\n<p>compassionate care shown to Miriam. In lieu of flowers, please honor<\/p>\n<p>Miriam by contributing to the benevolent fund at Garden Spot Village at<\/p>\n<p>the above address.<\/p>\n<p>The Klee Funeral Home &amp; Cremation Services, Inc., Shillington, is<\/p>\n<p>honored to be caring for Miriam and her family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleefuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.kleefuneralhome.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miriam S. Kachel OBITUARY Miriam S. Kachel, 100, of Garden Spot Village, formerly of Wyomissing, passed away peacefully&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":["post-166626","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\/166626","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=166626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166626\/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=166626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}