\t\t\tThelma J. (Ziegler) Straka \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Thelma J. (Ziegler) Straka, of York, PA, age 95, passed peacefully in her sleep during the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 23. <\/p>\n
Born May 22, 1931 in Reading PA, she was the daughter of Leroy and Alma (Klinger) Ziegler. She was preceded in death by her husband Victor S. Straka, her brother Russell and sister June. She is survived by her three children, daughter Christine (Steven) Hess, sons Joseph Straka and David (Candice) Straka, seven grandchildren (Adam, Ashley, Alison, Heather, Brady, Michele, Joseph) and six great grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Thelma was an honors graduate of Reading High School and was employed as an executive secretary for many years. She enjoyed spending time with her family along with cooking, crafts, sewing, playing bingo and Penguins hockey.<\/p>\n
A viewing will be 9-10 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Church 2935 Kingston Road, York. The Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10 a.m. at the church with Rev. Andrew St. Denis as celebrant. Burial will be in Gethsemane Cemetery in Reading. The John W. Keffer Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc., East York, is assisting with the arrangements.<\/p>\n
The family gratefully acknowledges the care of the staff at Amoroso Senior Living and Memory Care in York. <\/p>\n
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Joseph\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thelma J. (Ziegler) Straka OBITUARY Thelma J. (Ziegler) Straka, of York, PA, age 95, passed peacefully in her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-230331","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\/230331","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=230331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}