{"id":206992,"date":"2026-05-31T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:16:08","slug":"william-h-rehr-iii-president-of-reading-area-fire-museum-dies-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206992\/","title":{"rendered":"William H. Rehr III, president of Reading Area Fire Museum, dies | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Reading Area Fire Museum president William H. Rehr III.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a1c751dcebbc.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Reading Area Fire Museum<\/p>\n<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Area Fire Museum has announced the death of its president, William H. Rehr III.<\/p>\n<p>William, also known as \u2018Bill\u2019, was the museum&#8217;s president and served as the city&#8217;s 15th fire chief from Sept. 1, 1996, until Dec. 31, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, the museum said Bill was a dedicated leader and advocate for preserving the history of firefighting in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His vision, commitment, and contributions helped make the museum a treasured resource for generations. We extend our deepest condolences to Bill&#8217;s family, friends, and all who had the privilege of knowing him,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral and memorial service details will be shared when available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Reading Area Fire Museum READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Area Fire Museum has announced the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42919,90956,8589,90957,2252,90955,128,130,129,90954],"class_list":["post-206992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-leader","tag-firefighting-history","tag-memorial","tag-museum-president","tag-obituary","tag-reading-area-fire-museum","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-william-h-rehr-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206992","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=206992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}