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.
In the movie “A Few Good Men,” Col. Jessup declared to Lt. Kaffee, “You can’t handle the truth!” And it‘s true of our society. We can’t handle the truth. So we make up our own truths.
We decide when life begins. Five weeks, 16 weeks, birth? Truth is that the creation of life begins at conception. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:13,16) Oh, we say, that truth is too inconvenient.
We decide what gender we are. She, he, her, him, they? Truth is that we were created and designed with specific and immutable xx and xy chromosomes. Oh, we say that truth doesn’t reflect our feelings.
We decide what a family unit is. Two moms, two dads, one mom, one dad? Truth is that God created man and woman to fit together in perfect unity to be as one. A unit. Oh, we say that truth doesn’t fit my lifestyle.
What about the Ten Commandments? We kick them to the curb with the rest of truth. Oh, we say, those truths don’t work with our worldview. And if anyone disagrees with our truths, well, we assassinate them.
Donna Barnhart
Spring Township