Carlos I. Torres-Vargas, 58, of Reading, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, June 4, 2026. He was the husband of Eloida Velez, with whom he shared over 27 years of marriage.<\/p>\n
One of the many children born to the late Agustin Torres and Carmen Vargas, Carlos was very proud of his Puerto Rican heritage. He was born in Guayanilla.<\/p>\n
Carlos was a long-time member of St. Peter the Apostle Parish of Reading. He lived life on his own terms and encouraged his children to live life fully.<\/p>\n
Left to treasure his memory is his wife, Eloida; their children: Carlos J. Torres-Velez of Reading; Carmen M. Torres-Velez of Reading; Alexander I. Torres-Velez of Reading; Angela R. Wynne, wife of Mitchel Salvatore, of Shillington; and Rebecca M. Hall, wife of Damon Hall, of Dover, PA; and grandchildren, Wyatt, Silas, and Genevieve Hall. Carlos was very close to his Torres cousins and is also survived by a large extended family.<\/p>\n
A Prayer Service will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. at the Edward J. Kuhn Funeral Home, Inc, 739 Penn Ave, West Reading, PA 19611. Friends and family are invited to view from 3:00 p.m. until the start of the service. Condolences may be expressed at kuhnfuneralhomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos I. Torres-Vargas, 58, of Reading, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, June 4, 2026. He was the husband…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-213480","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\/213480","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=213480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}