{"id":48877,"date":"2025-12-01T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:56:14","slug":"pearl-schaeffer-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48877\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Schaeffer Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tPearl A. Schaeffer \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pearl A. (Smith) Schaeffer, 93, of Bernville, passed away Thursday, Nov. 27 th , 2025 at Stone<\/p>\n<p>Ridge Poplar Run. She was the wife of the late Thomas J. Schaeffer.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl, a daughter of the late, Norton J. and Edna (Shartle) Smith, was born in Jefferson Twp. She<\/p>\n<p>is survived by three sons, Terry M. Schaeffer, Rodney L. Schaeffer, and Jeff S. Schaeffer; a<\/p>\n<p>daughter, Pamela K. Zimmerman; a brother, Karl H. Smith; a sister, Mildred M. Graeff; seven<\/p>\n<p>grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren. She was preceded in<\/p>\n<p>death by four brothers, Arthur D., Gilbert N., Leon I., and Harvey Smith; and three sisters, Dorothy<\/p>\n<p>E. Himmelberger, Rebecca S. and Sally R. Smith.<\/p>\n<p>She was a member of Altalaha Lutheran Church, Rehrersburg.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM, Monday, Dec. 1 st , at Hill Funeral Home, 111 Godfrey<\/p>\n<p>St. Burial will be in Altalaha Church Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lammandwitman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.lammandwitman.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pearl A. Schaeffer OBITUARY Pearl A. (Smith) Schaeffer, 93, of Bernville, passed away Thursday, Nov. 27 th ,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-48877","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\/48877","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=48877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}