{"id":266306,"date":"2026-08-16T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:58:08","slug":"walter-gladney-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266306\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Gladney Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tWalter W. Gladney \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Walter W. Gladney, 92, of Greenwich Township, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, on<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Born at home on February 23, 1934, in Quakertown, Walt was the son of the late Walter S. and Mary C. (Pisczek)<\/p>\n<p>Gladney.<\/p>\n<p>Walt served his country honorably and faithfully as a specialist in the United States Army from 1952 to 1958,<\/p>\n<p>serving in the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>Walt is survived by his children, Michelle L. Gladney, Hamburg, Susanne M. (Gladney) Long, Sugarloaf, PA, Walter<\/p>\n<p>S. \u201cScott\u201d Gladney, South Boston, VA, his stepchildren, Kevin C. Noecker, Mohrsville, Stephanie A. (Noecker)<\/p>\n<p>Mohn, wife of Harold Mohn, Mohrsville, and Brian K. Noecker, husband of Diana D. (Conrad) Noecker, Kutztown.<\/p>\n<p>He is also survived by his grandchildren, Shaun, Briana, Jordan, Jarrett, Samantha, Sarah, Natalee and Michael, his<\/p>\n<p>great-grandchildren, Elizaveta, Milana and Gavin,\u00a0and by his step-grandchildren, Elizabeth and Kenneth.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his parents, Walt was preceded in death by his two wives, Ella Jane (Hafler) Gladney and Lesley Ann<\/p>\n<p>(DeBoeser) Gladney, and by his granddaughter, Jamie Svenson.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorial Mass for Walt will be held on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 10:30 am at St. Mary\u2019s Roman Catholic<\/p>\n<p>Church, 14833 Kutztown Rd, Kutztown. A visitation with Walt\u2019s family will be held on Friday, August 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>from 9:30 am to 10:30 am at the church.<\/p>\n<p>Walbert Funeral Home &amp; Crematory, Fleetwood, is honored to be caring for our friend, Walt. Condolences at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.WalbertFuneralHome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.WalbertFuneralHome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walter W. Gladney OBITUARY Walter W. Gladney, 92, of Greenwich Township, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-266306","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\/266306","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=266306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}