\t\t\tEnik\u00f6 Katalin Bornemisza Russell \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
May 27, 1939 \u2013 October 18, 2025<\/p>\n
Enik\u00f6 Russell passed away on October 18, 2025, at home, surrounded by her husband and friends, and her beloved cat Kat. The cause was metastatic breast cancer. <\/p>\n
Enik\u00f6 Bornemisza was born in 1939 in Kaposvar, Hungary. She spent her childhood in Germany, New York and Ligonier, PA. She met her husband of 65 years, James, at a Penn State folk dancing event, the beginning of a lifelong romance and shared love of dancing. They married in 1960 and settled in the Whitfield neighborhood of Reading, Pennsylvania where they lived for the entirety of their marriage, creating a home of beauty and style and a bountiful garden which brought them much joy. <\/p>\n
Enik\u00f6 worked as a Certified Public Accountant, supporting several Reading arts organizations such as the Reading Symphony Orchestra and the Reading Public Museum. She spent her life cultivating beauty. She collected arts and crafts, wrote poetry and was a keen observer of nature and wildlife \u2013 and a Master Gardener \u2013 pursuits passed on to her family. <\/p>\n
She is survived by her husband, James Bennett Russell, daughter Zolna Russell of Baltimore, (daughter Melinda Russell passed away in 2023), and her son John Burr Russell of London. She had five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. <\/p>\n
A Celebration of Life will be held on March 28, 2026, at the Reading Public Museum at 2pm. Please RSVP at enikorussellcelebration@gmail.com if you would like to attend. All are welcome. <\/p>\n
To recognize Enik\u00f6\u2019s commitment to art and nature, donations are being accepted for the following organizations: <\/p>\n
\u2022\tReading Public Museum<\/p>\n
\u2022\tReading Chamber Music Society<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThe Nature Conservancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enik\u00f6 Katalin Bornemisza Russell OBITUARY May 27, 1939 \u2013 October 18, 2025 Enik\u00f6 Russell passed away on October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-96115","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\/96115","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=96115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}