{"id":8174,"date":"2025-10-19T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8174\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:25:14","slug":"nina-haggerty-obituary-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8174\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina Haggerty Obituary &#8211; Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tNina L. (Heffner) Haggerty \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Nina L. (Heffner) Haggerty, 77, formerly of Muhlenberg Township, died August 4, 2025 in her Lower Heidelberg Township residence.<\/p>\n<p>She was the wife of John F. Haggerty III, whom she married July 19, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Reading, PA on July 14, 1948, she was a daughter of the late Howard S. and Margery (Kern) Heffner.<\/p>\n<p>Nina was a 1966 graduate of Muhlenberg High School.<\/p>\n<p>She was a member of Holy Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church, Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<p>Nina was employed with Carpenter Technology, Reading and last worked as a teacher\u2019s aide and in learning support with the Muhlenberg School District before retiring in 1997. <\/p>\n<p>She was a very active volunteer with both St. Joseph the Worker School, Orefield, PA, and Holy Guardian Angels School.<\/p>\n<p>Nina enjoyed cruising and was an avid Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles fan.<\/p>\n<p>She especially loved watching her grandkids and attending all of their activities and sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>Nina is also survived by two children: John F. Haggerty, IV, companion of Deb Weber of Allentown and Kelli L. (Haggerty), wife of Dr. Russell E. Emrich of Lower Heidelberg Township.<\/p>\n<p>She was the proud grandmother of four grandchildren: Devon R. Haggerty, John F. \u201cIan\u201d Haggerty, V; Russell \u201cRJ\u201d Emrich; and Marli E. Emrich.<\/p>\n<p>Nina will be sadly missed by her grand puppy, Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>Other survivors include a brother, Jackson, husband of Sharon Heffner of Spring Township; 2 nieces and 2 nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Nina was predeceased by a sister, Mona Lee Bubbenmoyer.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday, August 11th, at 10:00 am in the Chapel of St. George at Gethsemane Cemetery, 3139 Kutztown Road, Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Holy Guardian Angels Memorial Fund, 3121 Kutztown Road, Reading, PA 19605. Please memo Nina Haggerty.<\/p>\n<p>Stitzel Family Funeral Homes &amp; Crematory, Inc., Laureldale is in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>For online condolences, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.StitzelFamilyFuneralHomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nina L. (Heffner) Haggerty OBITUARY Nina L. (Heffner) Haggerty, 77, formerly of Muhlenberg Township, died August 4, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-8174","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\/8174","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=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}