Robert Edwin (Edmund) Snover was born on 12 September 1918 in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio.
1,2,4 He died on 15 December 2003, at age 85, in Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas.
4 He was buried in Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas.
4,5 Robert Edwin (Edmund) Snover was an Electrical Engineer.
4 He was educated Rutgers University.
4 U.S. Army- Bet. 1943-1946.
4 Robert E. Snover
1918-2003
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Services for Robert E. Snover, 85, Ottawa, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, Ottawa. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery.
Mr. Snover died Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, at Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa.
He was born Sept. 12, 1918, in Wadsworth, Ohio, the son of James Raymond and Hazle F. (Mikesell) Snover. He moved to Ottawa in 1971.
He attended classes at Rutgers University, majoring in electrical engineering.
Mr. Snover worked for John Manville Corporation in Manville, N.J. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943. He was assigned to Fort Dix. As sergeant, he had further training at Camp Blading, Fla., Fort Riley and Fort Ord, Calif.He served in the South Pacific with the 112th Regimental Combat Team, seeing action in the Philippines. At the war's end, he accompanied his unit to Japan. He was discharged in 1946.
He worked as an electrical contractor and later was an electrical inspector for Ocean County, N.J. He returned to John Manville Corporation and worked there until 1951 when he took a job in California.Mr. Snover was also employed at Fort Riley with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering. He transferred to Fort Leonard Wood, then to Fort Riley and Parsons before going to De Soto. He retired in 1979.
Mr. Snover was a member of the Optimists, Rotary, Oasis Club, Shrine Isis Temple at Salina, Ottawa Masonic Lodge No. 18, American Legion, National Association Retired Federal Employees Past President Local Chapter No. 0785, First Baptist Church of Ottawa and the Homebuilders Class.
He married Mildred Kathryn Cornell on Aug. 12, 1951, at the home of her parents. She died Oct. 23, 2003.
Survivors include a son, Robert Snover Jr., Princeton; a daughter, Kathleen Snover Dionne, Richmond; 12 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to the First Baptist Church or to the National Association Retired Federal Employees, sent in care of Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 14, Ottawa 66067.