{"id":188157,"date":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188157\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","slug":"gayle-chambers-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188157\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayle Chambers Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tGayle Ann Chambers \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gayle Ann Chambers, age 83, peacefully departed this world on May 4, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio. Gayle was born on January 17, 1943, in Reading, Pennsylvania and was a 1960 graduate of Reading High School. She retired from Gai-Tronics where she worked as a Purchaser. <\/p>\n<p>Gayle loved gardening, was an amazing cook who loved to make Polish, Chinese, and PA Dutch dishes, and was a masterful baker whose pineapple upside-down cake and babka were beyond compare. She was a selfless individual who never hesitated to help a friend or family member in a time of need. Even her move to Columbus was motivated by the desire to help her sister Sharon raise her grandchildren, and Gayle was a beloved presence in all of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle was preceded in death by father Charles F. Smith; mother Marianne Eckhardt; first husband William Chambers; second husband Leon Stacherski; and sister Sharon Ritter.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle is survived by sister Sue Ann Williams (husband Dennis); daughter Brenda Bender (husband Chris); grandson Michael Bonanno (husband Anthony); two nieces Ashley and Kristi; and five grandnieces\/nephews Jason, Roman, Charles, Catie, and Rex.<\/p>\n<p>Private services and burial will be held at a later time in Reading, Pennsylvania hosted by Auman\u2019s Inc. Funeral Homes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/<\/a> In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the American Lung Association. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.lung.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gayle Ann Chambers OBITUARY Gayle Ann Chambers, age 83, peacefully departed this world on May 4, 2026, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-188157","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\/188157","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=188157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}