Rita Kaye Snyder

Rita Kaye Snyder, 68, of Whitehall (Egypt), passed away Thursday, March 13, 2025 comfortably and peacefully in her home. She was the loving wife of Peter Reichert. Born in Allentown, on March 1, 1957, Rita was the daughter of the late Daniel and Grace (Hunsicker) Snyder of New Tripoli, living there on the family farm. Rita attended Northwestern High School playing in the marching band and participating in the school's sports program with basketball, field hockey, and softball to her credits. After HS she enrolled in college at Penn State Universities State College and Mont Alto campuses, earning her bachelor's degree in Biology and Forestry. Rita pursued a career in naturopathy after college, later deciding to work on a farm and also drive a school bus. Rita became accomplished at designing, creating, repairing, and maintaining just about anything you would find around the home or farm, and did just that for most of her adult life. After farming and driving, Rita was employed by the United States Postal Service as a letter carrier and also a NALC union steward in Bellefonte, and later carrying in Whitehall Twp, after moving back to the area of her birth to be closer to her family and old friends. Rita retired from the USPS after 30 years of dedicated service, in 2017. In her later life Rita was able to continue finding happiness in her love of music, hiking, and birding, as well as discovering and pursuing new interests as diverse as cruising the world, and sea kayaking, becoming proficient at both! Rita was known to be an adventurer, avid traveler, seeker of joy, a loyal and loving caretaker of people and nature. Survivors: In addition to her husband, Peter; stepdaughter, Sarah Approbato and her husband, Eric of Hamilton, NJ; siblings, Gary Snyder of New Tripoli, Pat Christ and her husband, Dan of Kempton, Brian Snyder and his wife, Bonnie of New Tripoli, Brenda Burkhart of Kutztown, Rita is a beloved Aunt and Great Aunt, with many friends and extended family around the world. Service: A funeral service will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 22, 2025, in the Heintzelman Funeral Home, Inc., 4906 Route 309 Schnecksville. Family and friends may pay their respects from 9:30-11:00 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home. Interment will follow the service at Ebenezer Church Cemetery, New Tripoli. Online expressions of sympathy may be recorded at www.heintzelmancares.com Contributions: Our Rita would love for you to appreciate the flora and fauna in nature in her memory; however, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Audubon Mid Atlantic in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 196 Schnecksville PA 18078-0196.