| Richard E.
Snow, age 78 of Sunflower Road, Butler, Pennsylvania passed away
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 11:35 a.m. in the Butler Memorial
Hospital. Born in Bruin,
Pennsylvania on July 16, 1927 he was the son of the late Melvin Snow
and Lydia Painter Snow.
Mr. Snow was a veteran of World War II,
he enlisted in the United States Navy in July of 1944 after his
seventeenth birthday. After completing boot camp he volunteered to
take part in military test experiments at the Naval Research
Laboratory in Washington D.C. from 1944 to 1946 he served aboard the
destroyer U.S.S. Bache and the battleship U.S.S. Missouri. After his
discharge he received a commendation from president Harry S. Truman
and later one from the Secretary of Defense William Perry as well as a
certificate of Appreciation from the Department of Veteran's Affairs.
He was a member of the Michael Kosar Post # 0778 of the American
Legion in Lyndora, Pennsylvania, the Joseph T. Black Post # 249 of
Veterans of Foreign Wars in Butler, Pennsylvania, and was a member of
The (DAV) Disabled American Veterans. He was employed as a carpenter
at the Bethlehem Steel Shipyards in Baltimore, Maryland from 1948 to
1952, a salesman for Penn Industrial Supply Co. in Butler from 1952 to
1967. Mr. Snow retired in 1982 after fifteen years with Pullman
Standard when the plant closed. Mr. Snow was also a member of St.
Paul's Roman Catholic Church. He was a hunter, fisherman, and a
traveler. He spent time researching his family genealogy.
Mr. Snow is survived by his wife,
Janice Marie McCall Snow whom he married at St. Phillip and James
Church in Baltimore, Maryland on September 18, 1950, they renewed
their vows on May 7, 1994 at St. Alphonsus Church in Butler,
Pennsylvania. He is also survived by one son, Timothy Snow of
Lindenwold, New Jersey, four daughters, Patricia McNerney and her
husband Dr. David McNerney of Rockville, Maryland, Cynthia Lee Kenyon
and her husband Dr. David J. Kenyon of St. Louis, Missouri, Kathleen
Huff of Butler, Pennsylvania and Carolyn Rutter and her husband Harry
Rutter of Marlton, New Jersey, seven grandchildren, two brothers, Dean
Snow of Butler, Pennsylvania and Barry Sheakley of Rifle, Colorado,
and by a number of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by one
brother Laverne Snow and his son in-law Gary L. Huff.
Friends and family of Richard E. Snow
will be received at the Thompson-Miller Funeral Home Inc., 124 East
North Street, Butler, Pennsylvania on Thursday, September 15, 2005
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Roman Catholic Blessing Service will be
held on Friday, September 16, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at the
Thompson-Miller Funeral Home Inc. Interment will be in the North Side
Cemetery. |
A Life Remembered . . .