{"id":49257,"date":"2025-12-01T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49257\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:03:06","slug":"mary-rissmiller-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49257\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Rissmiller Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tMary Alice Rissmiller \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mary Alice Rissmiller, age 85, formerly of Reading passed away on<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, November 16, 2025 at Phoebe Berks Health Care Center in<\/p>\n<p>Wernersville.<\/p>\n<p>Her loving husband of 60 years, Samuel W. Rissmiller died on August 31,<\/p>\n<p>2021.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in Royersford on October 3, 1940 a daughter of the late<\/p>\n<p>Eugene P. and Mary E. (Strauss) Bergstresser.<\/p>\n<p>She was a graduate of Exeter High School and a graduate of the Berean<\/p>\n<p>Bible Institute in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Alice worked as a Secretary at Boscov\u2019s for many years.<\/p>\n<p>She founded Motivated Moms, an ESL ministry in the city of Reading.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by four sons, Rev. S. Wayne Rissmiller (Kristan), David<\/p>\n<p>A. Rissmiller, Daniel P. Rissmiller (Debbie), and Rev. Jonathan A.<\/p>\n<p>Rissmiller (Tammie); a sister, Patricia Hiltebeitel; 15 grandchildren;<\/p>\n<p>and 16 great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>She was also predeceased by a brother, Eugene P. Bergstresser; and a<\/p>\n<p>granddaughter, Amber J. Rissmiller.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM<\/p>\n<p>at Calvary Bible Fellowship Church, 4891 Penn Ave., Sinking Spring, PA<\/p>\n<p>19608.<\/p>\n<p>A visitation with the family will be on Monday from 9:30 to 10:30 AM at<\/p>\n<p>the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Interment will follow at Berks County Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in her memory to<\/p>\n<p>Calvary Bible Fellowship Church at the above address.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be made at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ColeFH.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.ColeFH.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Alice Rissmiller OBITUARY Mary Alice Rissmiller, age 85, formerly of Reading passed away on Sunday, November 16,&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-49257","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\/49257","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=49257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257\/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=49257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}