{"id":263610,"date":"2026-08-12T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:48:13","slug":"fredrick-burns-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263610\/","title":{"rendered":"Fredrick Burns Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tFredrick A. Burns \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fredrick A. Burns, 88, of Laureldale, Pennsylvania, passed away Thursday, August 6, 2026 at Laurel<\/p>\n<p>Pointe Senior Living. Born on September 16, 1937 in Reading, PA, he was the son of the late Charles<\/p>\n<p>Burns and Rachel (Moyer) Burns. He was a graduate of Central Catholic High School (Class of 1955).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Proudly served in the Army where he had many adventures touring Europe in his off time taking many<\/p>\n<p>photos\/slides.\u00a0 Fred worked in Advertising for Reading Eagle for over 40 years.\u00a0 Fred was the husband of<\/p>\n<p>the late JoAnn (Till) Burns for 62 years before her passing (2022). Fred enjoyed camping and traveling<\/p>\n<p>the US, especially Civil War related and anything JoAnn wanted to do. Fred leaves behind two daughters,<\/p>\n<p>Michelle (Shelley) Yerger (Ron) of Harrisburg, and Stephanie Kurtz (Kevin) of Robesonia.\u00a0 He has five<\/p>\n<p>grandchildren: Paul Yerger, Rachel Yerger, Rebekah Yerger Biacchi, John Kurtz, and Carly Kurtz Provost<\/p>\n<p>and two great-grandchildren; Elena Biacchi and Carlo Biacchi.\u00a0 He was predeceased by his brothers:<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Burns, Gerald Burns, and Ronald Burns. In Fred\u2019s Memory, please have your favorite beverage in<\/p>\n<p>his honor (his was Yuengling Lager). Graveside services Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 11 Am in<\/p>\n<p>Becker\u2019s St. Peters Cemetery, 265 Maidencreek road, Fleetwood, Pa. Please dress for the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Hildenbrand Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fredrick A. Burns OBITUARY Fredrick A. Burns, 88, of Laureldale, Pennsylvania, passed away Thursday, August 6, 2026 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-263610","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\/263610","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=263610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}