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Easton Express, Thursday, April 4, 1957, page 1
Clare Snyder Stricken Fatally
Official Of Easton Forks School, 53, Was Civic Leader, Former
Detective
Clare Llewelyn Snyder, 53, attendance officer for the Easton
Forks Joint School District died unexpectedly this morning
at his home, 323 Hamilton St. Death was attributed to a heart
attack.
Mr. Snyder and his wife, the former Dorothy Rudlin, attended
Lenten services in ST. Peter’s Lutheran Church last night.
On the way to church and while there Mr. Snyder complained
of pains in this chest. On their return home from church. Mr.
Snyder watched television for a while and retired at about
10:30 o’clock.
This morning after he arose and had breakfast. Mr. Snyder
got into his car outside the residence to report for work at
his office in the wolf Junior High School building. He left
the car and returned to the house, saying he did before he
arrived.
Mr. Snyder had been attendance officer of the school district
sine Jan 22, 1945. In addition to the duties of that office,
he supervised the elementary school milk program I the schools
was head of a tax department set up the Easton School Board
to keep watch on delinquent taxes and took care of the school
census tabulations and of the distribution of various materials
to the schools.
Was Detective
In 1932, when former Judge Herbert F. Laub became Northampton
County district attorney Snyder was appointed an assistant
county detective. He served in that capacity for some years
until he became a member of the Easton police force. Later
he was a Jersey Central Lines railroad detective. After he
left that post, he was employed at the Treadwell Engineering
Co. until he took the school post.
Taking a keen interest in civic affairs, he was a member of
the board of directors of the Northampton county Society for
Crippled Children and Adults; was a past president on Easton
Exchanged Club; held a key post for some in Easton Civil Defense
Organizations and was active in the boyscout movement as scoutmaster.
He was born in Easton Oct 3, 1903, a son of the late Samuel
and Alice Gabler Snyder and attended in Easton public schools.
He was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and Dallas
Lodge 396, F & AM, Easton.
Surviving, in addition to his widow, are a son, Ens. Richard
Snyder, stationed at Pensacola, Fla., and two sisters, Mrs.
James Morrison, Willow Grove, and Mrs. Luther Vogel, Avenal,
Calif. His son was a football and baseball star at the U. S.
Naval Academy.
Edward Tracy, superintendent of the Easton-Forks School District,
paid the following tribute to Mr. Snyder today.
“The sudden passing of Clare L. Snyder is a complete
Shock to all of us in the Easton Area Joint School System.
As a man he had no peer in this devotion to his family, his
job and his community. Daily he went about his tasks, in a
quiet, efficient manner. He worked diligently; always seeking
better was to render greater service to his community.
“Mr. Snyder was responsible for the development of several
practices in the child accounting division of the Easton area
joint School System that became so well-known and accepted
throughout the Commonweath fo Pennsylvania that his office
was visted frequently by representatives of the State Department
of Public Instruction and by representatives of other school
districts who were seeking better child accounting practices.
He have generously of his time to many worthwhile community
projects. He was particularly active in the Northampton Branch
of the Pennsylvania Society for Crippled Children and Adults.
He was one of the greatest supporters of the Porter orthopedic
class.
Mr. Snyder will be sorely missed
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