Obituary notices, week of July 13, 2026 through July 19, 2026
One Reading obituary was published this week: Woods, Polly A. (Bamberg), 87, whose notice was posted through Barile Funeral Home via Echovita. No further biographical detail — profession, family, or service arrangements — was available in the source material at press time; readers are d…
READING -- This week's notices carry one Reading-resident obituary published or updated during the period, from Barile Funeral Home.
Polly A. (Bamberg) Woods, 87, of Reading, died July 16, 2026. Service arrangements were not specified in the material available for this notice. Full obituary at Echovita: https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ma/reading/polly-woods-21845260.
Notices compiled from Echovita (Barile Funeral Home), Legacy.com, Tribute Archive, and Reading Patch.
Note to editor: An additional Echovita listing this week, John Paul Scott, 93, was tagged "Reading, Massachusetts" but its funeral arrangements were credited to a funeral home in Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada, inconsistent with every other Reading-tagged listing in this batch, which used Massachusetts funeral homes. Given that discrepancy, this notice was omitted per the rule to leave out anyone whose Reading residency is uncertain. Worth a manual check against the funeral home's own site before next week's roundup if the name recurs.
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