READING, PA – Russell Peter Rader, 69, of Reading, PA, passed from this world on December 24, 2016, at Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital in Greenville. He was know to family and friends as “Tater”. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and competing in dart competitions. Russell was a mason and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Sunburg, PA. He retired from the U.S. Navy after 24 years of service. He was a three time purple heart recipient, and was a Vietnam veteran. He was preceded in death by his father, Francis Rader; mother Georgia Edith Thompson; and sister Freda Kline. He is survived by his son, Robert Rader; daughters Laura Alcorn, Georgia Wright, and Cheyenne Rader; grandchildren Ava Troutman, Evelyn Wright, Robert Lawhorn, Angela Lawhorn, Keenan Anderson, David Alcorn, Jessica Rader, Megan Rader, Timothy Rader, Nicholas Rader, and Caine Cook; brother Michael Rader; and sister Kathy Rodriguez. “The Peace of Wild Things”, by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel abgove me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Graveside funeral services will be Friday, June 23, 2017, at 9:00AM at Arlington National Cemetery. For those attending the graveside service, please arrive at the cemetery by 8:30AM.