Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Snodgrass
Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Pache Snodgrass, 75, of Slippery Rock, died Saturday, June 21, 2025, at West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh.
She was born Jan. 6, 1950, in Sharon, Pa., a daughter of the late Eugene Pache and Margaret Helen Paterchok Pache.
She married Alla John Snodgrass, 84, originally of Butler, who survives, on May 10, 1968.
Betty graduated from Sharpsville High School and, later, Slippery Rock University, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in social work. She began her career at Children’s Aid Society of Mercer County, helping people build families through adoption. She moved on to work at Butler County Children & Youth, where she was much beloved by the foster parents and children she supported. She later transferred to Butler County Drug & Alcohol, helping people with substance use disorder obtain treatment. She retired from the county after 30 years serving the community.
While Betty lived in Pennsylvania all her life, she visited many sites and cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico with her family growing up. Later, she and Al traveled together to several Caribbean islands, northern France, Amsterdam and Paris.
Betty was incredibly loving, unfailingly generous and fiercely loyal to her husband and daughters. And she always was supportive of the endeavors of friends and extended family — whether it be buying a band T-shirt or patronizing their small business.
She loved art and traveled nationally and globally to see exhibitions of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. Betty herself was a talented oil painter and gravitated toward other artistic outlets, such as jewelry-making and sewing. She also enjoyed cooking — using recipes handed down from her Hungarian mother and grandmother — antiquing and “Alice in Wonderland.”
She was a member of St. Faustina Parish, St. Peter Roman Catholic Church in Slippery Rock and of the former Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Farrell, Pa., which she attended as a girl.
Betty is survived by her husband, at home; two daughters, Tamara Moore of Pittsburgh and Sarah (fiancé, Eric Stettmier) Snodgrass of Slippery Rock; three sisters, Julie (Nicky) DeMatteo of Cherry Hill, N.J., Rebecca Vogel of Spokane, Wash., and Shirley Estes of Oklahoma; a sister-in-law, Coral (Edward Szewczak) Snodgrass of Buffalo, N.Y.; a brother-in-law, Frank Snodgrass of Bothell, Wash.; 10 nephews; three nieces; four cousins; several close friends; and her canine companions, Hercules and Rigel, who never left her side.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her in-laws, John and Mary Snodgrass of Butler; two nephews, Daniel Riley of Cold Spring, Ky., and Bill Snodgrass of New Kensington; brothers-in-law, James Snodgrass of Butler and Leon Riley of Ohio; sisters-in-law, Margaret Ann Riley of Ohio, Janet Snodgrass of Butler and Maureen Snodgrass of Bothell, Wash.; eight aunts and uncles; and nine cousins.
Sweet Betty, you’ll never be truly gone as long as we are here to remember you: “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart).”
SNODGRASS — Friends of Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Pache Snodgrass, who died Saturday, June 21, 2025, will be received from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, at MARTIN FUNERAL HOME, DOWNTOWN, 201 E. Cunningham St., Butler.
A blessing service will immediately follow at 6 p.m. at the funeral home, with the Rev. Sean Francis, senior parochial vicar of St. Faustina Parish, officiating.
Burial will be in Butler County Memorial Park.
For more information, please visit www.martinfh.net.
Please sign the guest book at www.butlereagle.com.
