OBIT: Van David SNYDER, 1946, Somerset Twp., Somerset County, PA

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VAN DAVID SNYDER

  Van David Snyder, of Somerset Township, supervisor of the Howard Johnson 
restaurants on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, died in Somerset Community Hospital, 
early Tuesday morning as a result of uremia.  He had been a patient in the 
hospital three times since January 19, and was admitted the last time, February 
19.  Prior to that he had been a patient in a Pittsburgh hospital taking 
treatments for acute anemia.
  Born in Scalp Level, November 20, 1913, he was the son of Mrs. Lynne Snyder 
Martin of "Cherry Lane" farm east of Somerset, and Dr. David Stahl Snyder, 
druggist of Meyersdale and Scalp Level, who died in Somerset in 1915.
  For the past several years Mr. Snyder made his home, during winter with his 
mother and in summer lived on his own farm at Pleasant Hill.  He was supervisor 
of all the Howard Johnson restaurants on the 160 mile superhighway for four 
years, and was continually on the job until his last illness.
  Van Snyder attended Somerset High School, and would have graduated with the 
1932 class, but ill health forced him to quit in his senior year before the term 
ended.  For some years he lived in retirement, until restored health permitted 
him to accept a position with the department of revenue in Harrisburg, where he 
remained until taking over supervision of the turnpike restaurants.
  Surviving in addition to his mother, and wife, the former Miss Ruth Livingston 
of Johnstown, now residing in Harrisburg, is a half-brother, Norton Martin, of 
Somerset and his step-father, Edward N. Martin of Pittsburgh.
  The body was removed Tuesday, to Pittsburgh, for cremation.
  Private funeral services were conducted Thursday at the Martin residence, 
Somerset, by Rev. Dr. I. Hess Wagner, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, of 
which Mr. Snyder was a member.  Interment in the Berlin cemetery, under 
direction of Charles R. Hauger, Somerset mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, February 28, 1946