For information on submitting an obituary, please contact Reading Eagle by phone at 610-371-5018, or email at obituaries@readingeagle.com or fax at 610-371-5193.
Most obituaries published in the Reading Eagle are submitted through funeral homes and cremation services, but we will accept submissions from families. Obituaries can be emailed to obituaries@readingeagle.com.
In addition to the text of the obituary, any photographs that you wish to include can be attached to this email. Please put the text of the obituary in a Word document, a Google document or in the body of the email. The Reading Eagle also requires a way to verify the death, so please include either the phone number of the funeral home or cremation service that is in charge of the deceased’s care or a photo of his/her death certificate. We also request that your full name, phone number and address are all included in this email.
All payments by families must be made with a credit card. We will send a proof of the completed obituary before we require payment. The obituary cannot run, however, until we receive payment in full.
Obituaries can be submitted for any future date, but they must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. the day prior to its running for it to be published.
Please call the obituary desk, at 610-371-5018, for information on pricing.
Your Sept. 18 issue contained two interesting articles about education. In “Incomplete grade,” a professor points out that student enrollment has been declining for years. He says this decline makes it difficult for schools to know how many students they’ll have to educate. I’m not a professor, but I suggest he look up the word “less” in the dictionary.
As every professor should know, the U.S. birth rate, as in almost all other nations, is declining. This long-term trend is a concern among demographers and has serious implications for society’s future, but I suspect that our education leaders will still clamor for more schools, more teachers and higher salaries. A declining birth rate means fewer students, which rationally should mean fewer schools, teachers and professors needed. That’s a bitter fact for people in our education system to accept, but they should figure out how to deal with it.
The other article is about the president of Penn State getting a 47% pay increase (to $1.4 million annually). In the real world, that’s like giving the captain of the Titanic a bonus for using less fuel than expected by getting his passengers off the ship early.
William H. Rissmiller
Exeter Township