{"id":184404,"date":"2026-05-05T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:38:15","slug":"linda-althouse-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184404\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Althouse, Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tLinda M. Althouse, \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Linda M. Althouse, 78, of South Heidelberg Township, passed away Thursday April 30, 2026 at 10:25 pm at Laureldale Skilled Nursing &amp; Rehabilitation Center.  She was the wife of Richard L. Althouse.  Born in West Reading, Mrs. Althouse was the daughter of the late Harry M. and Mada M. (Baver) Kauffman.  She was employed as a caregiver at the Jesuit Center in Wernersville for 20 years until her retirement.  In addition to her husband Mrs. Althouse is survived by her children Melissa J. Williams of Wernersville; Matthew R. Althouse of Sinking Spring; Thomas R. Althouse of South Heidelberg Township and her 8 grandchildren, 5 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.  She was preceded in death by her siblings Mary Ann Cherrybon, Betty Henderson, James Kauffman, Harry M. Kauffman, Jr., Allen Kauffman and Fred Kauffman.<\/p>\n<p>Celebration of Life Service will be held at Bean Funeral Home 3825 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring, Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 11:00 am.  Amy S. Landis, Celebrant, will officiate.  Interment will follow at Laureldale Cemetery.  The family will receive relatives and friends at Bean Funeral Home Thursday from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.  Online 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":"Linda M. Althouse, OBITUARY Linda M. Althouse, 78, of South Heidelberg Township, passed away Thursday April 30, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-184404","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\/184404","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=184404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}