Janet L. Hart McKittrick
Lower Heidelberg
Township
Janet Louise Hart McKittrick, 83, of Lower Heidelberg Township, died Sunday, November 30 2025, at Phoebe Berks Village, Wernsersville.
She was the widow of Lawrence P. McKittrick, who died in 2006.
Born July 28, 1942, in Ronco, a daughter of the late Steve and Mary Pavlovich Hart.
Janet was a 1960 graduate of German Township High School, McClellandtown.
After graduating, she moved to Virginia. She was employed with the Department of State in Washington, DC, in the Executive Director’s Office of Inter-American Affairs for 36 years, retiring in 1997.
She loved bowling, gardening and traveling during her spare time, and was the past treasurer of Beverly Forest HomeOwners Association, Springfield, Virginia.
Janet was a past member of St. Bernadette Roman Catholic Church, Springfield, Va., where she was also a member of their Ladies Senior Group. She was a member of St. Ignatius Loyola R.C. Church, Whitfield.
She is survived by her daughter, Cassandre Mary McKittrick (John Haines) of Des Moines, Iowa; her sister, Susan M. (Hart), widow of Richard A. Nye, of Lower Heidelberg Township; her niece, Sandra Nye; and her seven nephews: Richard, Michael, Robert and Ronald Nye, and Thomas, Steve and Mark Gansor, and their families.
Janet was preceded in death by her sister, Barbara Kay Hart Gansor.
A Prayer Service was held on Thursday, December 4, 2025, at Stitzel Family Funeral Homes & Crematory, Inc., 3300 Kutztown Road, Laureldale.
Friends will be received in the Terravecchia-Haky Home for Funerals, Inc., 515 North Main Street, Masontown, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 6, when prayers of transfer will be said, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m., in St. Francis of Assisi Parish, 101 W. Church Ave., Masontown, PA 15461.
Interment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery Leckrone.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: St. Ignatius Loyola R.C. Church, 2810 St. Albans Drive, Reading, PA 19608, and / or St. Bernadette’s R.C. Church, 7600 Old Keene Mill Road, Springfield, VA 22152.
If you wish to leave an online condolence for the family, please visit our website at www.terravecchiahakyfh.com