{"id":178608,"date":"2026-04-28T21:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:08:11","slug":"freda-genova-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178608\/","title":{"rendered":"Freda Genova Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tFreda Genova \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Freda Genova, 102, passed away April 19, 2026, in her Reading residence.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband Frank Genova passed away on May 20, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in New London, Connecticut, a daughter of the late<\/p>\n<p>Albert Ferri and Nancy (Bernacchi) Spadafora.<\/p>\n<p>Freda was employed at the former Ciotti Markets, West Lawn and<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Food\/Getty Mart of Wyomissing before her retirement.<\/p>\n<p>She was a member of Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>In her spare time, Freda enjoyed playing bingo, traveling and was<\/p>\n<p>well known for her excellent Pizzelle making skills.<\/p>\n<p>Freda is survived by a daughter, Patricia A., wife of John A. Beil of Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n<p>There are also many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>She was pre-deceased by two brothers; Joseph Ferri and Thomas Ferri and by<\/p>\n<p>two sisters; Maria Ferri and Josephine Rinker.<\/p>\n<p>A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, April 24th at 10:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>in Holy Rosary Church, 237 Franklin St., Reading, PA 19602.<\/p>\n<p>Burial will be in Gethsemane Cemetery.  Friends may pay their condolences<\/p>\n<p>on Thursday, April 23rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Gallman-Sonoski<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Home, 910 Chestnut St. Reading, PA 19602 and again on Friday<\/p>\n<p>from 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM at the church.  In lieu of flowers, please make contributions<\/p>\n<p>to the church at the address above or to Bayada Home Health Care, PO Box 536039,<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh, PA 15253.  Online condolences may be made at <a href=\"http:\/\/gallman-sonoskifuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gallman-sonoskifuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freda Genova OBITUARY Freda Genova, 102, passed away April 19, 2026, in her Reading residence. Her husband Frank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-178608","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\/178608","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=178608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}