Obit of Snider, Rev. William Newton - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 18 Dec 2004 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Snider, Rev. William Newton Rev. William Newton Snider, was born on June 19, 1912, in Niagara County, New York. he was the son of William Henry Snider and Viola Amelia Dunkleberger Snider. He was the sixth child in a family of sixteen children. Of those, he is survived by three brothers, Jesse Edwards Snider, Arthur Paul Snider, Lawrence Stephen Snider and two sisters, Fanny Helen Snider Afson and Katherine Louise Snider Woodward. He is survived by his four children: William Edward Snider, Tyler, Texas; Kathryn Elaine Snider Hudson, Kingman, Arizona; Viola Loraine Snider Hosteter, Frankfurt, Indiana; and Madelene Beth Snider Finley, Jasper, Georgia. All four children were born at Deaconess Hospital, Oklahoma City. He is also survived by ten grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephew and cousins. In May 1920, Rev. Snider, along with his parents, moved to Plum Brook Road, Great Valley, N.Y., where he attended the District School and graduated from Ellicottville High School in 1933. After graduating from Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y., in 1937, Rev. Snider pastored the Baptist Church in Sugartown, N.Y., and assisted in the Lockport N.Y. Free Methodist Church, as well as the Methodist Church in Hartland, NY. During this time, he was also a Boy Scout Leader and taught Sunday School. In 1941, he accepted a Free Methodist pastorate in Oklahoma and moved from his home in New York. That year at the Oklahoma Conference in Perkins, Oklahoma, he met Mary Madelene Henderson, an obstetrics nurse at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City. They were married on December 26, 1942. During their first years together, they pastoral the Free Methodist Church in Geary, Oklahoma and Carmen, Oklahoma. In 1949, they accepted the pastorate in Waynesboro, Virginia where Rev. Snider built the Free Methodist Church while Mary raised their four children. From 1951 until 1954, they pastored the Free Methodist Church in Spencerville, Maryland. In 1954, Rev. & Mrs. Snider and their four children moved to Oklahoma City, where Mary could be back near her family. They pastored the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Carwile, Oklahoma for the next seven years until 1961, while Mary worked as an obstetrics nurse at Deaconess Hospital until she retired in 1975 after 32 years of service. In 1975, William Newton & Mary went to Honduras as missionaries. After God took Mary to Heaven in 1984, Newton was a missionary in Australia and later returned to Honduras where he served as pastor and Bishop. In 1988, William Newton married Doris Faye Lucus Snider who along with her five children, Ralph and Connie Lucus, Linda & Victor Langdon and David Lucus all of Yukon, OK, also, Curtis and Glenda Lucus of Oklahoma City and Pamela and Darrell Fesler of Prague, OK, also survive him. After they were married, they also went to Honduras as missionaries. After they returned to Oklahoma, until he became ill in April 2002, William Newton served his Lord as a Teacher, and supplying as an assistant pastor and evangelist. Services will be held Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 2:00 P.M. in the Hahn-Cook Chapel with interment to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Published in the Oklahoman on 9/16/2002. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html