LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE October 30,1991
Snowie M. Balter, 81, Asotin homemaker
Snowie M. Balter, an Asotin homemaker since 1961, died of congestive heart failure Monday October 28,1991 at Tri-State Memorial Hospital at Clarkston, she was 81.
She was born June 30,1910 in Holly, Colo., to James Monroe and Lura Jane (Curry) McCurry. She received her education at Holly.
She and Lawrence S. Balter were married Oct. 16,1928. They moved to Asotin from New Plymouth, Idaho in 1961. Balter, a U.S. Forest Service employee, died March 23,1981.
Her hobbies included quilt making and she especially enjoyed small children. She is survived by five sons, George and Bill, both of New Plymouth, Harold Balter of Cheshire, Ore., Bob Balter of Lewiston and Kenneth Balter of Blackfoot, Idaho; a daughter, Geneva Walker of Clarkston ; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
A son, Richard Balter, died previously.
A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday , October 31,1991 at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens at Lewiston with the Rev. J. Stanley Lyman officiating. Mountain view Funeral home at Lewiston is in charge of the arrangements.
The family suggests memorials be made to the Elks Rehabilitation Hospital at Boise.

In 1981 when her husband Lawrence passed away, the pastor who came to aid comfort to the family questioned Snowie about the origin of her unusual name. Snowie told him that she was born June 30th in Colorado and it was extremely hot there and she did not know why they named her Snowie. Then she added, "Maybe it will snow when they bury me".
Graveside service was Halloween Day and it snowed during the graveside memorial, this was the only time that it snowed in Lewiston, Idaho in the Winter of 1991.

Snowie was going with a Mexican man and double dating with her sister Mable when she met Lawrence, he was working at a CCC camp at the time on the Boise King Forest.

Once in La Huta, Colorado ; Snowie & her sister Mable were on their way to a grocery store and were grabbed, Snowie was 15 or 16 at the time and she kicked loose they were all living in a camp ground at the time
The McCurry family moved a lot following the fruit harvest, this is why they were in Idaho as it was Summer time and all the orchards needed pickers. They all played a musical instrument and Snowie played a harmonica and also a accordian. The family would all get together and play some wonderful old time music. They were all very good. Snowie's nickname was "toots" and they called her that to the end. She was sort of a tomboy, liked wearing jeans and western shirt and never cared for fancy dresses. She was hired by the Forest Service as a lookout to watch for Forest fires and report them. Her birthday was June 30th and that was when we usually moved from the Ranger Station to the lookout. The roads were still full of snow and usually had to be parked and all belonings carried up the mountain to the lookout. She carried in snow and melted it on a wood cook stove to wash clothes on a wash board and bath water we also used it for drinking water until we could get to the spring. In the Fall when they moved back to the Payette valley, she worked in the packing houses or Cannery to make end meet. She loved to play with kids and would go out into the stret to play with the neighborhood kids. She never liked any kind of fish even though the boys caught plenty of them. She would clean fish and fry them but never tasted any . She never had any sea food and consiquently had a huge goiter that nearly choked her to death. She also had migraine headaches and a horribly painful back as her mother also had.