\t\t\tBarbara L. Hartranft \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Barbara L. Hartranft, 95, of Womelsdorf, passed away Sunday evening, March 15,<\/p>\n
2026, at Maidencreek Place, Reading. She was the widow of Richard R. Batdorf, who passed away February 27, 1979, and Robert L. Hartranft, who passed away January 16, 2014. Born August 2, 1930, in Heidelberg Township, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Margaret (Weidner) Ruth. She is survived by her children, Kevin C. Batdorf and his wife, Jane, and Bonnie J. Fulkerson and her husband, William; her stepchildren, Dru R. Hopkins and her fiance, Dayna Estrada, and Chris Hartranft and his wife, Gina; her grandchildren, Ryan (Melissa) Batdorf, Gregory (Sara) Fulkerson, Kristi (Daniel) Csencsitz, and Kati (Michael) Prudente; her step-grandchildren, Shea, Michael, Gabriel, and Zachary; and 10 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at The Mull Funeral Home, Womelsdorf, PA, with the Rev. June E. Wann, officiating. Visitation will be held between 10:00 and 11:00. Burial in Heidelberg Cemetery will take place immediately after the service. The family will provide the flowers for the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Zion Lutheran Church, 300 W. High Street, Womelsdorf, PA 19567 or to the Womelsdorf Community Library, 203 W. High Street, Womelsdorf, PA 19567. The Mull Funeral Home, Womelsdorf, is entrusted with the arrangements. For expanded obituary and online condolences please visit www.mullfh.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara L. Hartranft OBITUARY Barbara L. Hartranft, 95, of Womelsdorf, passed away Sunday evening, March 15, 2026, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-189841","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\/189841","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=189841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}