A longtime pharmaceutical market researcher and active community member is being remember for her work within the Newtown area. Nick Vandal wrote about the Newtown native for the Bucks County Courier Times.

Lisa Rayder passed away at the age of 65 on Aug. 19 at Chandler Hall Health Services Hospice. She went through a short battle with hepatic cancer.

Rayder originally moved to the Philadelphia area from Connecticut in 1986 and graduated with her MBA from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania in 1988. While obtaining her Bachelor’s in Massachusetts, she met her future husband while working in a lab. They married and lived in the Yarldey area for many years.

Outside of her career in the pharmaceutical industry, Rayder was very active in her community. She served as the president of the homeowners association at the Villas of Newtown, which she and her husband moved into in 2014.

“She was so smart. She had a Ph.D., a Penn MBA, a Harvard postdoc,” said Steve Mosley, Rayder’s husband. “She was a very, very smart lady.”

Read more about Rayder’s life, career, and community work at the Bucks County Courier Times.