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- Snider, William David
Posted By: Linda Ivers (205.188.192.47) Date: Tuesday, 7 December 1999, at 3:08:29 a.m.
Gazette Times, Corvallis Oregon, January 19, 1953
William D. Snider Passes on Saturday
William David Snider, a resident of Corvallis for the past 30 years, passed away in a local hospital Saturday night following a long illness.
The son of John and Rachel Vaught Snider, he was born at Butler, Tenn. on August 19, 1866. He received his education at the Butler college after which he taught in the country schools near there for some time. In 1890 he came to Roseburg, where he was employed by the Southern Pacific as a bridge carpenter. On July 4, 1892 he was married to Irene Tompkins at Roseburg. The couple made their home on a farm near Roseburg until 1914 when they came to Lebanon where Snider was again employed by the S.P. as a carpenter. In 1922 the family came to Corvallis where he was employed as construction foreman for the Corvallis Lumber company until his retirement in 1938.
He was a member of the Baptist church of Corvallis and of the I.O.O.F. for more than 60 years.
He is survived by his wife; four sons, Aaron, Hermiston; Harold, Portland; Walter, San Fernando, Calif.; Paul, Coquille; two daughters, Mrs. Wilbur [Eva] Sausen, Corvallis; Mrs. E.E. [Gladys] Timmeron [Timmerman], Lincoln, California; 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held in the Warner-McHenry Funeral Home Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with Reverend Rodney Gould officiating. Interment will be at Oaklawn Memorial Park with the Corvallis Odd Fellows in charge of commital services.
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