{"id":194934,"date":"2026-05-17T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194934\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:30:59","slug":"philip-goshert-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194934\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Goshert Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tPhilip P. Goshert \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Philip P. Goshert, 63, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 13,<\/p>\n<p>2026, in Penn State Health \u2013 St. Joseph Medical Center, following a courageous<\/p>\n<p>battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in West Reading, he was a son of the late<\/p>\n<p>Mary L. (Dick) and Paul R. Goshert. Phil shared 36 wonderful years of marriage<\/p>\n<p>to his true sweetheart, Deborah A. (McNally) Goshert.<\/p>\n<p>Phil was the highly successful Owner and President of Berks Water<\/p>\n<p>Technology, Inc., West Lawn, a company he founded in 1995 with his wife<\/p>\n<p>Debbie. He also was a fearless motorcycle racer, earning five championships at<\/p>\n<p>his home track, Maple Grove Raceway, and capturing the NE Divisional<\/p>\n<p>Championship in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Phil embraced life with great enthusiasm and adventure. He enjoyed<\/p>\n<p>hunting, skiing and hiking whenever he could, both locally and across the<\/p>\n<p>country. A certified scuba diver, he loved the serenity of the ocean and the<\/p>\n<p>beach just as much as the adrenalin rush of roller coasters near and far. Phil<\/p>\n<p>was a self-proclaimed \u201cdog person\u201d and also enjoyed time at the gym, and<\/p>\n<p>cheering on \u201chis\u201d beloved Seattle Seahawks every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his loving wife Debbie, Phil is survived by their daughter, Alex<\/p>\n<p>A. Goshert of New York City; his mother-in-law Marge R. McNally of Wyomissing;<\/p>\n<p>his brothers Scott Goshert of Muhlenberg Township and Bryan Goshert of Mount<\/p>\n<p>Holly Springs; and his sister-in-law, Tina Goshert. Also surviving are his<\/p>\n<p>cherished niece and nephew, Kristen Bloom, wife of Josh, and David Goshert,<\/p>\n<p>and his great nephew Callum.<\/p>\n<p>Services for Phil will be held at 11:00AM on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at<\/p>\n<p>Klee Funeral Home &amp; Cremation Services, Inc., 1 East Lancaster Avenue,<\/p>\n<p>Shillington, PA, with Pastor Timothy Sanger presiding. Please stray away from<\/p>\n<p>wearing black, as this is a Celebration of Phil\u2019s life. In lieu of flowers, please<\/p>\n<p>consider a donation in Phil\u2019s name to Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Research,<\/p>\n<p>504 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, NY 11556 or online at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lustgarten.org\/donatenow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/lustgarten.org\/donatenow<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Klee Funeral Home &amp; Cremation Services, Inc., is honored to assist the<\/p>\n<p>Goshert family during this difficult time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleefuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.kleefuneralhome.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip P. Goshert OBITUARY Philip P. Goshert, 63, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in Penn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-194934","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\/194934","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=194934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}