Obituaries

Anna J. Miller, 91, of Rockland Township, Fleetwood, died Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in the residence of her daughter, Charlotte A. Snyder. She was the wife of the late Lloyd A. Miller who died on July 21, 2002. Born in Rockland Township she was a daughter of the late Wilson R. and Jennie J. (Boyer)…

Edwin B. Ruth, 54, of Longswamp Township, died Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest. He was the husband of Brenda S. (Rohrbach) Ruth. They were married on October 18, 1975. Born in Allentown, PA he was a son of Dorothy I. (Frey) Ruth of Breinigsville and the late William H.…

Anna M. Kutz, 76, of Maxatawny Township, died Monday, March 23, 2009 in the Kutztown Manor, Kutztown. She was the wife of George H. Kutz. They were married on May 20, 1950. Born in Greenwich Township, Berks County, she was a daughter of the late Herbert H. and Mabel A. (Berger) Holben. She was a…

Donald Swaditch, 70, of Breinigsville, died Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in the Lehigh Valley Hospital Inpatient Hospice Unit, Allentown, where he was admitted earlier in the day. He was the husband of the late Lois M. (Parmer) Swaditch who died on April 7, 2005. Born in Hudson, PA (Luzerne County), he was a son of…

Robert D. Cole, 24, of Kutztown, died Monday, March 16, 2009 in his residence. Born in West Reading he was the son of Theodore Randall “Randy” Cole, Jr., Fleetwood, and Susan B. (Rader) Cole with whom he resided along with his Sister, Britney G. Cole. He attended Fleetwood High School, Fleetwood, and Berks Technology Center,…

Grace I. Seidel, 95, died Tuesday, March 10, 2009 in the Laurel Center, Tilden Township, where she had been a resident since 2000. She was the wife of the late Norman J. Seidel who died on March 16, 2001. Born in Richmond Township, Berks County, on January 21, 1914, she was a daughter of the…

L. David Garman, 74, of Greenwich Township, died Monday, March 9, 2009 in his residence. He was the husband of Janice A. (Welker) Garman who he married July 26, 1958. Born in Reading, PA, he was a son of the late Luther F. and Carmen M. (Schmidt) Garman. He was a veteran of the United…

Elizabeth A. Hilbert, 73, of District Township, died Sunday, February 22, 2009 in The Lutheran Home at Topton, where she recently resided. Born in Kutztown, PA, she was a daughter of the late William F., Sr. and Elizabeth T. (Kramlich) Hilbert. She was a member of the Lutheran congregation of Huff’s Union Church, Hereford Township.…

Rita F. Rehrig, 60, of Hill Road, Kutztown, died Monday, February 16, 2009 in the Reading Hospital and Medical Center, West Reading. She was the widow of Charles E. Mengel, who died on January 24, 1971. Born in Allentown, she was a daughter of the late Harvey W. L. Miller, Sr. and the late Elmira (Weidner)…

Nettie Brown Kaiser, 93, of the Village of Moselem, Richmond Township, died Monday, February 16, 2009 in the Reading Hospital and Medical Center, West Reading. She was the wife of the late Dr. Russell F. Kaiser who died July 26, 1988. Born in Syracuse, NY she was the daughter of the late Frank R. and…