{"id":40937,"date":"2025-11-21T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40937\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:30:10","slug":"glenn-fessler-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40937\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Fessler Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tGlenn I. Fessler \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Glenn I. Fessler, 82, of Wernersville, passed away Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at the Reading<\/p>\n<p>Hospital. He was the husband of Joan (Gelsinger) Fessler with whom he celebrated 56 years of<\/p>\n<p>marriage on July 5th .<\/p>\n<p>He was born August 25, 1943 to George W. and Esther (Keen) Fessler. He graduated from<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Weiser High School in 1961 and received and associate degree from Penn State. He<\/p>\n<p>served in the US Navy and for 20 years in the Naval Reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Initially he sold farm equipment, but through most of his life he sold lawn &amp; garden equipment<\/p>\n<p>(Gravely &amp; Kubota).<\/p>\n<p>He grew up on a farm and through most of his life, in his spare time, he helped his son or<\/p>\n<p>daughter doing field work whether preparing to plant or to harvest.<\/p>\n<p>He was an active member of St. John\u2019s (Hain\u2019s) UCC and served on the consistory and the<\/p>\n<p>Cemetery Board.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children, Keith G. Fessler, husband of Heather<\/p>\n<p>(Fuls), Kay L., wife of James Vonglis, and Karen H., wife of Jon Merrell; nine grandchildren,<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline, Madeline, and Katherine Vonglis, Charlotte, David, and Daniel Merrell, and Jared<\/p>\n<p>(Katelyn), Dylan, and Macey Fessler. He was preceded in death by a brother, William Fessler,<\/p>\n<p>and a sister, Dawn (Fessler) Zettlemoyer.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, Nov. 22nd, at St. John\u2019s (Hain\u2019s) UCC, 591 N. Church<\/p>\n<p>Road, Wernersville, with his pastor, the Rev. Mark Johnson, officiating. A viewing will be held<\/p>\n<p>from 1-2:00 PM, at the church. Burial will be in Hain\u2019s Church Cemetery. Online condolences<\/p>\n<p>may be made at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lammandwitman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.lammandwitman.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. John\u2019s (Hain\u2019s) UCC, 591 N.<\/p>\n<p>Church Rd., Wernersville, PA 19565.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenn I. Fessler OBITUARY Glenn I. Fessler, 82, of Wernersville, passed away Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-40937","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\/40937","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=40937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}