OBIT: William J. SNYDER, 2005, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  SNYDER, William J. 08/02/05 The New Republic
   April 6, 1926 - August 2, 2005 
  
  William J. Snyder, CDR, SC, USN, 79, of Sebring, Fla., passed away Tuesday,
  August 2, 2005.   
  He was born April 6, 1926, in Meyersdale, to William R. and Fannie (Miller)
  Snyder, and had been a resident of Sebring for 23 years.   
  He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Emerson.   
  He was a Commander, Supply Corps, U.S. Navy, serving for 27 years. Duties
  included (1) Naval Supply Depot Liasion with Ship Repair Facility, Yokusuka,
  Japan; (2) Assistant Director, Nuclear Weapons Division, U.S. Naval Ordnance
  Supply, China Lake, GA; (3) Supply Officer, USS Francis Marion (APA249); (4)
  Student, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (5) Associate Director of Supply,
  USNOTS: Director of Supply, USNOTS (6) Chief, Defense Contract Administration
  Services Office, Westinghouse, Sunnyvale, California. He received a Masters
  Degree in Management, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1964. He was a
  Teacher-Coordinator of Metropolitan Adult Education Program in San Jose,
  California; Part-Time Associate Professor, Frostburg State College, Frostburg,
  Maryland; Assistant Professor, Potomac State College of West Virginia
  University, Keyser, West Virginia; Assistant to the President, Clappers
  Manufacturing Company, Meyersdale; and Director, Material Management,
  University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio. He was the author of Bookkeeping for the
  Small Businessman and Co-Author of Four Functions of Management. His honors
  included being listed in "Who's Who in the Midwest" and "Personalities of the
  West and Midwest", being awarded the Joint Services Commendation Medal for duty
  at DCASO, Westinghouse and being designated honor student, USAF Institute of
  Technology, Ohio State University, Defense Management Center, Columbus, Ohio.
  He was a member of International Materials Management Society; American Society
  of Hospital Purchasing and Materials Management; Northeast Ohio Society for
  Health Care Material Management (Past President); American Accounting
  Association; American Management Association; Supervisory Management
  Association and Retired Officers Association. His hobbies were radio controlled
  model aircraft; golf; watercolor and acrylic painting and furniture making.   
  He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Anna (Ann), of Sebring; daughters:
  Robbyn L. (Thomas, Sr.) Watkins, Stow, Ohio; Cheryl A. (Allan) Thomas, Hudson,
  Ohio; and Carol L. Snyder, of Avon Park, Fla.; brother, Paul and sister-in-law
  Kathryn Snyder, Kensington, Md.; sister-in-law Dorothy Snyder, Phoenix, Ariz.;
  brother-in-law John Philip and sister-in-law Blanche Philip of Garrett; three
  grandchildren: Katie Watkins, Athens, Ohio; Thomas Watkins, Jr., Stow; and
  William Thomas of Hudson. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews,
  grand nieces and nephews and a great-grand nephew.   
  Mr. Snyder was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Meyersdale, and
  Sebring.   
  Visitation with family was held from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday evening at
  Stephenson-Nelson Funeral Home, Sebring.   
  Memorial service was held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, August 9, at Sebring Church of
  the Brethren, Pastor Wendell Bohrer officiating.   
  Memorial contributions may be made to either Sebring Church of the Brethren or
  ARC, where he was very active and served as Past President.