{"id":29469,"date":"2025-11-09T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:01:14","slug":"john-blood-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29469\/","title":{"rendered":"John Blood Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJohn H. Blood \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John H. Blood, 71, of Reading, passed away on October 30, 2025, after a courageous battle with Frontotemporal Degeneration. Born September 18, 1954, he was a son of the late John G. and Mary E. (Henne) Blood, and was preceded in death by his siblings, Georgine and Keith Birkenstock.<\/p>\n<p>John lost his hearing at age five due to spinal meningitis but never let it quiet his spirit. He graduated from the PA School for the Deaf and was a member of the Keystone Deaf &amp; Hard of Hearing community.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as a welder for Reading Truck Body for 44 years, retiring in 2021. John loved photography, woodworking, racing, and trap shooting, and could fix just about anything. A devoted husband and gentle soul, he was deeply loved by his family and all animals, especially his cats.<\/p>\n<p>John is survived by his wife of 40 years, Karen L. (Beidler) Blood; twin brother, Jerry; sister-in-law, Donna Mason; brother-in-law, Marc Mason; sister, Linda Quade; brother, Bruce Birkenstock (Celia); daughter, Vanessa; and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The family thanks Holisticare Hospice and Sense of Peace Home Care for their compassionate care.<\/p>\n<p>To view the full obituary, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aumansinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.aumansinc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John H. Blood OBITUARY John H. Blood, 71, of Reading, passed away on October 30, 2025, after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-29469","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\/29469","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=29469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}