Jessie
Forastiere
Jessie
Lynch Forastiere, 92, of Pekin died at 1:52 a.m. Friday, July 20,
2001, at her residence.
Her
funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, July 23, at Hurley Funeral
Home in Mason City, with the Rev. Robert Paddack officiating.
Burial
will be in Mason City Cemetery.
Visitation
will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.
Mrs.
Forastiere was a housewife.
She
was a veteran of the Army Nurse Corps, in which she was a second
lieutenant.
She
was born March 5, 1909, in Oakford to Samuel C. and Margaret E.
Cohee Lynch. She married Dr. Roger J. Forastiere on May 15, 1944, in
Wichita Falls, Texas. He died in 1992.
She
is survived by two brothers, Donald A. Lynch of Long Prairie, Minn.,
and Russell C. Lynch of Mason City; one sister, Shirley J. Hawks of
Mason City; and several nieces and nephews.
She
also was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.
She
was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Coco Plum Womans Club
in Miami, Fla., and of the Doctors Auxiliary in Coral Gables, Fla.
Memorial
contributions may be made to American Legion Jackson Keen Post 496,
Mason City.
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Walter
‘Junior’ Snyder
Walter
"Junior" Snyder, 76, of Sun City Center, Fla., formerly of
New Holland, died at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, 2001, in Sun
City Center.
His
funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 24, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Lincoln.
Burial,
with military rites, will be in Richmond Grove Cemetery, New
Holland.
Visitation
will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Snyder
was a veteran of World War II.
He
was born Dec. 25, 1924, in Middletown to Walter and Mae Gilkerson
Snyder Sr. He married Dorothy Franz in 1950 in Raton, N.M. He later
married Shirley Matthews, in Colorado Springs, Colo., on June 18,
1970.
Surviving
are his wife, Shirley, of Sun City Center, Fla.; his former wife,
Dorothy Castle; four sons, Ted Snyder (and Dawn) of Spencerport,
N.Y., Randy Snyder of Normal, Kipling Snyder (and Kitty) of Pekin
and J.W. Snyder (and Elizabeth) of Bloomington; three daughters,
Brenda Snyder of Princeville, Pam Schini of Morton and Pam Niekes of
North Port, Fla.; two stepdaughters, Paula Hill (and Bill) of
Deltona, Fla., and Beth Curtis of Deltona, Fla.; two brothers, Bud
Snyder of New Holland and Ray Snyder (and Eileen) of Sunnyland; two
sisters, Shirley Wright (and Paul) of Peoria and Dolores Newsum of
Peoria; 21 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
He
was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and one son.
He
was a member of Disabled American Veterans, Peoria VFW and Peoria
Masonic Lodge.
Memorials
may be made to American Cancer Society, Disabled American Veterans
or Life Path Hospice, 1647 Sun City Center Plaza, Suite 104, Sun
City Center, FL 33573.
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