{"id":31081,"date":"2025-11-11T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31081\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:01:09","slug":"pearl-steffy-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31081\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Steffy Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tPearl S. Steffy \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>06\/05\/1935-11\/07\/2025<\/p>\n<p>Pearl S. Steffy, born June 5th 1935,  passed away on Friday, November 7, 2025 at 90 years old in the care of the Mifflin Center. She previously resided at the Laurel Center in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>Born in West Reading, she was a daughter of Helen S. Marx<\/p>\n<p>Pearl is a Reading High School graduate. She worked as a Telephone Operator for St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Center for many years, until retirement.<\/p>\n<p>When Pearl wasn\u2019t spending time with her grandkids, she loved to read, cook, listen to country music, work on crossword puzzles and all things Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl is survived by two sons, Richard Steffy of Reading and Eric Steffy (Melissa) of Perkiomenville; her daughter Erin Schaeffer (Robert) of Laureldale, her grandchildren: Shane Steffy (Anabel) of Queen Creek, AZ; Sierra Snyder (Gene) of Reading; Ariel Steffy (Jayme) of Reading; Lexie Gaines (Eric) of Royersford; Hunter Aurand of Reading; Kaci Schaeffer (a student at Alvernia University); Ryan Schaeffer and Payton Schaeffer of Laureldale. She is also survived by six great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no services at this time, as this was Pearl\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a \u201cCelebration of Life\u201d at a later date. For online condolences, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkscremations.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.berkscremations.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pearl S. Steffy OBITUARY 06\/05\/1935-11\/07\/2025 Pearl S. Steffy, born June 5th 1935, passed away on Friday, November 7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-31081","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\/31081","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=31081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}