\t\t\tGordon N. Bentz \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Gordon N. Bentz, 84, of Muhlenberg Township, died August 22, 2026 at Tower Health \u2013 Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
He was the husband of Carole M. (Graff) Bentz, to whom he was married for 61 years.<\/p>\n
Born September 3, 1941, in Reading, he was a son of the late George N. and Mae E. (Drayer) Bentz.<\/p>\n
Gordon was a 1959 graduate of Muhlenberg High School.<\/p>\n
He was employed with Executive Services, where he did art engraving for a number of years; then Western Electric\/AT&T\/Lucent Technologies\/Agere, Muhlenberg Township, for 24 years, retiring in 2002 as a manufacturing associate. After retirement, he worked part-time with Muhlenberg Parks and Recreation for 12 years. <\/p>\n
Gordon proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n
He was a former member of Calvary Lutheran Church, Laureldale.<\/p>\n
Gordon enjoyed photography, painting, music, walking, cars, and the Blue Angels.<\/p>\n
Surviving, in addition to his wife, are his children: Billy G. Bentz of Shillington and Susan M. (Bentz), wife of Bill S. Weidenheimer of Mohrsville; his five grandchildren: Kora (Weidenheimer), wife of Jacob Goulet; Jenna Weidenheimer; Jordan Gerner; Jessica Bentz; and Amber Bentz; and five great grandchildren: Archer Goulet, Anthony Bentz, Aubrey Grubb, Aria Grubb, and Adalynn Grubb.<\/p>\n
Also surviving are his siblings: David N. Bentz of Blandon and Rebecca K. \u201cBeckie\u201d Bentz of Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, September 12th at 3 p.m. at Jim Dietrich Farmhouse, 4899 Stoudts Ferry Bridge Rd., Reading, PA 19605.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a veteran\u2019s organization of your choice.<\/p>\n
Stitzel Family Funeral Homes & Crematory, Inc., Laureldale is in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gordon N. Bentz OBITUARY Gordon N. Bentz, 84, of Muhlenberg Township, died August 22, 2026 at Tower Health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-275026","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\/275026","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=275026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}