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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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