John Snyder Dies After Heart Attack
A heart attack Wednesday afternoon proved fatal to John H. Snyder. Monrovia farmer and stockman, in the Stutz Drug store in Effingham, where he had gone to inquire when a doctor he sought would be in his office. He had just gone to the office of the physician, who was not in at the time. He had been in failing health several months. Before going to the physician's office he had left his car at an Effingham garage for repairs.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock, the pastor, the Rev. C. E. Nash, officiating. Burial will be in the Monrovia cemetery. Mr. Snyder was a faithful member of the Methodist church and had served as a trustee for many years.
BORN IN 1887
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Snyder, John H. Snyder was born on the home place June 9, 1887, and lived on that farm at the time of his death. He attended the Monrovia school, the Atchison County Community high school at Effingham, and the Grand Island, Neb., business college
On Nov. 28, 1912 he married Miss Leota Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Best at the home of her parents south of Monrovia, and the went to housekeeping on his father's farm a few years later. He left the farm for some time to work in the Pinder lumber yard at Effingham and in 1916 he and his family moved to a bank in Helena, Mo., where he was employed in a bank six years, returning from there to the farm. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance and was prominent in northeast Kansas as a farmer and dairyman.
THREE CHILDREN
Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Helen Marie, who is a junior at the Atchison Community high school at Effingham; two sons, Cpl. Orren Gale Snyder, in the Southwest Pacific, and Cpl John Best Snyder, somewhere in France, and Brother, Major James Snyder of Pharr, Tex., now overseas. A brother Mark D. Snyder, jr. of Omaha, Neb., passed away last June 14, Five sisters died at early ages. Mrs. James Snyder and daughter Jill, of Pharr, Tex., will arrive Saturday for the funeral.
John H. Snyder's grandfather named the town of Monrovia, helped lay it out, and was one of the earliest postmasters, if not the first.
The body is at the Stutz & Shifflet mortuary at Effingham and will be taken to the residence near Monrovia Saturday, where it will remain until the hour of the funeral.
Atchison Globe, Friday, November 24, 1944, Front Page
A heart attack Wednesday afternoon proved fatal to John H. Snyder. Monrovia farmer and stockman, in the Stutz Drug store in Effingham, where he had gone to inquire when a doctor he sought would be in his office. He had just gone to the office of the physician, who was not in at the time. He had been in failing health several months. Before going to the physician's office he had left his car at an Effingham garage for repairs.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock, the pastor, the Rev. C. E. Nash, officiating. Burial will be in the Monrovia cemetery. Mr. Snyder was a faithful member of the Methodist church and had served as a trustee for many years.
BORN IN 1887
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Snyder, John H. Snyder was born on the home place June 9, 1887, and lived on that farm at the time of his death. He attended the Monrovia school, the Atchison County Community high school at Effingham, and the Grand Island, Neb., business college
On Nov. 28, 1912 he married Miss Leota Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Best at the home of her parents south of Monrovia, and the went to housekeeping on his father's farm a few years later. He left the farm for some time to work in the Pinder lumber yard at Effingham and in 1916 he and his family moved to a bank in Helena, Mo., where he was employed in a bank six years, returning from there to the farm. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance and was prominent in northeast Kansas as a farmer and dairyman.
THREE CHILDREN
Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Helen Marie, who is a junior at the Atchison Community high school at Effingham; two sons, Cpl. Orren Gale Snyder, in the Southwest Pacific, and Cpl John Best Snyder, somewhere in France, and Brother, Major James Snyder of Pharr, Tex., now overseas. A brother Mark D. Snyder, jr. of Omaha, Neb., passed away last June 14, Five sisters died at early ages. Mrs. James Snyder and daughter Jill, of Pharr, Tex., will arrive Saturday for the funeral.
John H. Snyder's grandfather named the town of Monrovia, helped lay it out, and was one of the earliest postmasters, if not the first.
The body is at the Stutz & Shifflet mortuary at Effingham and will be taken to the residence near Monrovia Saturday, where it will remain until the hour of the funeral.
Atchison Globe, Friday, November 24, 1944, Front Page
John Snyder Dies After Heart Attack
A heart attack Wednesday afternoon proved fatal to John H. Snyder. Monrovia farmer and stockman, in the Stutz Drug store in Effingham, where he had gone to inquire when a doctor he sought would be in his office. He had just gone to the office of the physician, who was not in at the time. He had been in failing health several months. Before going to the physician's office he had left his car at an Effingham garage for repairs.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock, the pastor, the Rev. C. E. Nash, officiating. Burial will be in the Monrovia cemetery. Mr. Snyder was a faithful member of the Methodist church and had served as a trustee for many years.
BORN IN 1887
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Snyder, John H. Snyder was born on the home place June 9, 1887, and lived on that farm at the time of his death. He attended the Monrovia school, the Atchison County Community high school at Effingham, and the Grand Island, Neb., business college
On Nov. 28, 1912 he married Miss Leota Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Best at the home of her parents south of Monrovia, and the went to housekeeping on his father's farm a few years later. He left the farm for some time to work in the Pinder lumber yard at Effingham and in 1916 he and his family moved to a bank in Helena, Mo., where he was employed in a bank six years, returning from there to the farm. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance and was prominent in northeast Kansas as a farmer and dairyman.
THREE CHILDREN
Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Helen Marie, who is a junior at the Atchison Community high school at Effingham; two sons, Cpl. Orren Gale Snyder, in the Southwest Pacific, and Cpl John Best Snyder, somewhere in France, and Brother, Major James Snyder of Pharr, Tex., now overseas. A brother Mark D. Snyder, jr. of Omaha, Neb., passed away last June 14, Five sisters died at early ages. Mrs. James Snyder and daughter Jill, of Pharr, Tex., will arrive Saturday for the funeral.
John H. Snyder's grandfather named the town of Monrovia, helped lay it out, and was one of the earliest postmasters, if not the first.
The body is at the Stutz & Shifflet mortuary at Effingham and will be taken to the residence near Monrovia Saturday, where it will remain until the hour of the funeral.
Atchison Globe, Friday, November 24, 1944, Front Page
A heart attack Wednesday afternoon proved fatal to John H. Snyder. Monrovia farmer and stockman, in the Stutz Drug store in Effingham, where he had gone to inquire when a doctor he sought would be in his office. He had just gone to the office of the physician, who was not in at the time. He had been in failing health several months. Before going to the physician's office he had left his car at an Effingham garage for repairs.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock, the pastor, the Rev. C. E. Nash, officiating. Burial will be in the Monrovia cemetery. Mr. Snyder was a faithful member of the Methodist church and had served as a trustee for many years.
BORN IN 1887
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Snyder, John H. Snyder was born on the home place June 9, 1887, and lived on that farm at the time of his death. He attended the Monrovia school, the Atchison County Community high school at Effingham, and the Grand Island, Neb., business college
On Nov. 28, 1912 he married Miss Leota Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Best at the home of her parents south of Monrovia, and the went to housekeeping on his father's farm a few years later. He left the farm for some time to work in the Pinder lumber yard at Effingham and in 1916 he and his family moved to a bank in Helena, Mo., where he was employed in a bank six years, returning from there to the farm. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance and was prominent in northeast Kansas as a farmer and dairyman.
THREE CHILDREN
Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Helen Marie, who is a junior at the Atchison Community high school at Effingham; two sons, Cpl. Orren Gale Snyder, in the Southwest Pacific, and Cpl John Best Snyder, somewhere in France, and Brother, Major James Snyder of Pharr, Tex., now overseas. A brother Mark D. Snyder, jr. of Omaha, Neb., passed away last June 14, Five sisters died at early ages. Mrs. James Snyder and daughter Jill, of Pharr, Tex., will arrive Saturday for the funeral.
John H. Snyder's grandfather named the town of Monrovia, helped lay it out, and was one of the earliest postmasters, if not the first.
The body is at the Stutz & Shifflet mortuary at Effingham and will be taken to the residence near Monrovia Saturday, where it will remain until the hour of the funeral.
Atchison Globe, Friday, November 24, 1944, Front Page
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