\t\t\tShirley Ann (Rapp) Napoletano \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Shirley Ann (Rapp) Napoletano, 92, of Wyomissing, passed away Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Highlands at Wyomissing. <\/p>\n
She was the widow of the late Natale Napoletano who passed away in 2020. <\/p>\n
Born February 20, 1933, in Temple, PA, she was the daughter of the late Irwin Rapp and Emma (Wegman) Rapp-Schumacher. <\/p>\n
Shirley was a 1951 graduate of Muhlenberg High School and later went on to obtain her undergraduate degree in education and master\u2019s degree in reading education from Kutztown University. <\/p>\n
She worked as a teacher in the Muhlenberg School District as a reading specialist for 27 years. After retiring from teaching Shirley still had a passion to help others and her community. She was a volunteer at the Muhlenberg Library for 17 years and a member of the Literacy Council of Reading\/Berks from 1970 \u2013 2000. Shirley was also a member of Berks Horticulture Club and was on the hospitality committee. <\/p>\n
Surviving are two children, Lisa Napoletano of Phoenixville, PA, and Nathaniel Napoletano, husband of Jani (Ott) of Akron, OH. <\/p>\n
Also surviving are two grandchildren, Renton Napoletano, and Chloe Napoletano, wife of Ryan Murphy. <\/p>\n
She leaves behind two great grandchildren, Logan Murphy and Owen Murphy. <\/p>\n
There are two of her siblings surviving, Alice (Rapp) Seward, widow of Frank, and Curtis Rapp, widower of Loretta. <\/p>\n
Shirley was predeceased by one sibling, Sylvia (Rapp) Heffner, wife of John. <\/p>\n
A memorial service will be held at a later date. <\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to Calvary Lutheran Church Laureldale, or the Muhlenberg Community Library. Please make donations in Shirley\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
Stitzel Family Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc., Laureldale, is in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shirley Ann (Rapp) Napoletano OBITUARY Shirley Ann (Rapp) Napoletano, 92, of Wyomissing, passed away Saturday, October 11, 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-3892","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\/3892","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=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}