{"id":23090,"date":"2025-11-03T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:59:07","slug":"barry-hafer-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23090\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Hafer Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tBarry Lee Hafer \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Barry Lee Hafer, 68, died October 26, 2025 in his Oley residence.<\/p>\n<p>Born March 31, 1957, in Reading, he was a son of Anna L. (Cleaver) Hafer of Oley, and the late Willard Burton Hafer, who died in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He was a 1975 graduate of Oley Valley High School, and attended Penn State University for business.<\/p>\n<p>Barry was employed with Acme Markets for a number of years, and Redner\u2019s Markets for 23 years, before retiring in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of Frieden\u2019s United Church of Christ, Oley.<\/p>\n<p>A music lover, he enjoyed playing records and going to concerts.  He also loved going to movies, reading, and enjoyed the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving, in addition to his mother, is a nephew and two nieces: Matthew A., husband of Kimberly A. Hafer; Tiffany A., wife of Justin M. Ollar; and Hillary Bratz.<\/p>\n<p>There are also seven great nieces and nephews: Jake, Kayla, Cheyenne, Cody, Charlee, Colt, and Ella.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his lifelong companion,  James Heresko.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be private at the convenience of the family.  <\/p>\n<p>Stitzel Family Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory, Inc., Oley, is in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: Friedens UCC, 337 Main Street, Oley, PA 19547.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Lee Hafer OBITUARY Barry Lee Hafer, 68, died October 26, 2025 in his Oley residence. Born March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-23090","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\/23090","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=23090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}