{"id":76124,"date":"2026-01-02T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:37:08","slug":"karen-schmoyer-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76124\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Schmoyer Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tKaren A. Schmoyer \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Karen A. (Kirkpatrick) Schmoyer, 75, of Macungie, passed away Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Cedar Crest.  She was the wife of John P. Schmoyer, to whom she was married 54 years.  Born in Reading, on November 18, 1950, Karen was the daughter of the late Thomas and Rosalie (Francis) Kirkpatrick. Karen retired in 2012 as an Industrial Registered Nurse at Pepperidge Farms in Denver and prior to that, Carpenter Steel in Reading.  She also was a private duty nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Karen will always be remembered as a wonderful friend, sister, mother, grandmother, and wife. Her loving and caring nature shined through in all she did, and her presence will be deeply missed, but her love will remain with us always.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors: In addition to her husband, John; children J. Eric Schmoyer (Dara) of Devon, Leah B. Hirschbeck (Jason) of Easton, Becca A. Ohlsen (Matt) of Macungie, Lindsay B. Schmoyer Singh (Vipul) of Georgia; brother, Timothy Kirkpatrick (Jeannette) of Sinking Spring; sister, Janet Heller (Dean) of Florida; grandchildren, Hailey, Jackson, Shelby, Ben, John, Anya, Evelyn, Ari.<\/p>\n<p>Service: Private. No calling hours.  The Heintzelman Funeral Home, Inc. in Schnecksville is in charge of arrangements.  Online expressions of sympathy may be recorded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heintzelmancares.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.heintzelmancares.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contributions: In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association c\/o the funeral home, P.O. Box # 196, Schnecksville, PA 18078-0196.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen A. Schmoyer OBITUARY Karen A. (Kirkpatrick) Schmoyer, 75, of Macungie, passed away Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-76124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124","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=76124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}