{"id":209228,"date":"2026-06-03T06:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:11:42","slug":"david-rathman-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209228\/","title":{"rendered":"David Rathman Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tDavid A. Rathman \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>David Allen Rathman, 80, of Reading, passed away on May 18, 2026. Born in Providence, RI on October 15, 1945, he was the son of the late William and Miriam (Hummel) Rathman. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Dennis Rathman.<\/p>\n<p>David was raised in Fleetwood and graduated from Fleetwood HS in 1963 and Kutztown State College in 1967. He spent 33 years teaching math at Downingtown and Berks Vo-Tech West.<\/p>\n<p>He will be lovingly remembered by his devoted wife of 58\u00bd years, Mary Lynne (Potteiger) Rathman; his son, Todd Rathman (Denise); his daughter, Kristen Hall; his brother, Terry Rathman; and his grandchildren, Rachel, Jillian, and Laura Rathman, and Bryce and Harry Hall III.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends are invited to a graveside service on Thursday, June 11, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reading. Those attending are asked to arrive at the cemetery entrance by 10:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hope Rescue Mission or Greenview Bible Camp. <\/p>\n<p>To view full obituary and to share condolences visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aumansinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.aumansinc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David A. Rathman OBITUARY David Allen Rathman, 80, of Reading, passed away on May 18, 2026. Born in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-209228","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\/209228","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=209228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}