{"id":206125,"date":"2026-05-30T08:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:42:13","slug":"joan-strickler-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206125\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Strickler Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJoan E. Strickler \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Joan Ellen Strickler, 82, passed away on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, within the comfort of her own<\/p>\n<p>home. She was born in Lebanon on September 8, 1943, a daughter of the late Ralph and Helen<\/p>\n<p>(Hippert) McCook. Joan was a member of the Millcreek Lutheran Church. She worked in<\/p>\n<p>customer service for Kountry Kraft Kitchens for many years before retirement. On November 17,<\/p>\n<p>1962, she married her true love, John R. Strickler. They shared a love of golf and went on many<\/p>\n<p>trips together. After nearly 53 years of marriage, he sadly passed away in 2015. She is survived<\/p>\n<p>by her son John D. Strickler, husband of Melissa; and sister, Barbara Weidman. She was<\/p>\n<p>preceded in death by a brother, Ralph McCook Jr. Memorial service will be held on Thursday,<\/p>\n<p>May 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM in the Millcreek Lutheran Church, 221 N. Sheridan Road,<\/p>\n<p>Newmanstown, PA with a visitation from 10:00 till time of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan E. Strickler OBITUARY Joan Ellen Strickler, 82, passed away on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, within the comfort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-206125","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\/206125","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=206125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}