{"id":205125,"date":"2026-05-29T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:29:07","slug":"lina-cefaratti-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205125\/","title":{"rendered":"Lina Cefaratti Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tLina Cefaratti \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lina Cefaratti, 86, of Oley, died May 26, 2026 at Penn State Health \u2013 St. Joseph, Bern Township.<\/p>\n<p>She was the loving wife of Dr. Michael Cefaratti M.D., with whom she shared 64 years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Born May 1, 1940, in Coperchia, Salerno, Italy, she was the daughter of the late Domenico and Nancy (De Luca) Pastore.<\/p>\n<p>Lina was a 1959 graduate of Radnor High School.<\/p>\n<p>She was employed as a private secretary for the Dean of Graduate Students at Villanova University for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Lina excelled as a homemaker \u2013 she was an incredible chef and host of parties. A devoted wife and mother who strived to make a loving home full of amazing food and art, while spreading love by helping her family and friends navigate through life. <\/p>\n<p>Surviving, in addition to her husband, are her two sons: Michael Cefaratti Jr., husband of Tomoe Cefaratti of New York City, NY and Nicholas Cefaratti of New York City, NY.<\/p>\n<p>Lina was predeceased by her two brothers: Gaetano and Peter Pastore.<\/p>\n<p>A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday, June 1st at 11:20 a.m. at St. Catharine of Siena R.C. Church, 4975 Boyertown Pike, Reading, PA 19606.  A visitation will be held from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the church.  Burial will be held privately at Calvary Cemetery, West Conshohocken.<\/p>\n<p>Contributions may be flowers or be made to St. Catharine of Siena R.C. Church at the above address.<\/p>\n<p>Stitzel Family Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory, Inc., Oley, is in charge of arrangements.  For online condolences, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lina Cefaratti OBITUARY Lina Cefaratti, 86, of Oley, died May 26, 2026 at Penn State Health \u2013 St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-205125","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\/205125","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=205125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}