SNODGRASS, FORREST

SNODGRASS, ENGLUND, BIRDSALL, JOHNSON, THORSON, HINES, MORRISON, BLAZEK, AMES, SHARP, CHANTRY, ELLIS, LAWLESS, THOMPSON, HONEYMAN, COLE, EVANS, CRAWFORD, WESTENBURG, FARRIS, SMITH, BURTON, HAROLD, HARMON, MYERS, DUYSEN, DAMMROW, STROBEHN, MCCOLLISTER, MOORE, SCHROEDER, KILPATRICK, RAINBOW, WATKINS

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Date: 4/1/2014 at 14:03:27

The Malvern Leader Jan. 5, 1950
Funeral Rites for Forrest Snodgrass

Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Thursday, Dec. 29 for Forrest Snodgrass with Rev. J,E. Englund in charge.
E.R. Birdsall, V.R. Johnson, J.A. Thorson, H.B. Hines, W.V. Morrison and M.C. Blazek served as pallbearers. The honorary pallbearers were C.E. Ames, Lydner Sharp, Bob Chantry and Buck Ellis of Tabor, Homer Lawless of Sidney and Leland Thompson of Malvern.
The music was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. R.R. Honeyman.
Those in charge of the floral offerings were Mesdames V.R. Johnson, E.E.Cole, E.R. Birdsall and K.A. Evans.
Earl Crawford and E.B. Westerburg ushered.
Ed Harris and Amos Smith were in charge of the traffic.
A masonic service was given at the church and the legion with the firing squad had charge at the cemetery.
The following obituary was read:

Forrest Dewey Snodgrass was born April 21, 1899, three miles north of Emerson and has always made this his home town.
He was the son of Blanche and William Snodgrass both of whom, have preceded him in death. He was one of four children, two brothers and a sister, one brother Russell, deceased.
Forrest had been in poor health for some time but in October of this year his condition became serious, and although he was given the best care and medical skill it was of no avail and he continued to grow steadily worse. He was taken about 10 days ago to the veteran's hospital in Lincoln, Nebr. and despite a desperate battle to regain his strength, it was a losing struggle and death came to end his suffering Monday evening, Dec. 26th, with his wife and daughters at his bedside, comforting his last moments.
The body was removed to the Comer Funeral Home where it lay in state until the hour of the service.
He attended school in the Emerson high school, at Boyles business college, Omaha, Nebr. at the Architectual School of the City of Los Angeles, Calif. His life work consisted of carpentering and contracting in Emerson and vicinity. For seven years he was Building Inspector for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and during World War II was in the Modification Dept. of the Bomber Plant at Omaha, Nebr. At the time of his death he was engaged in contracting and architectural work at Tabor.
He was married March 10, 1921 to Linda Duysen at Henderson. To this--------------------------
He served in World War I and was a charter member of Levi Burton Post No. 575 of Emerson and lately a member of Legion Post No. 1 of Omaha, Nebr.
He was a member of the Emerson Methodist church and Past Master of Emerson Masonic Lodge. He was Adjutant of the American Legion and served his community for five years as member of the city council.
He leaves to mourn his departure his wife Linda, daughters, Mrs. Virgil Harold of Emerson and Bonnie at home, a senior in the high school. Also a granddaughter, Vicki Harold, his brother Glen of Emerson and sister, Mrs. Earl Harmon of Hillsdale.
"Death is a gloom of Winter that chills the tender bloom of years, and for the joy of life, in youth betrayed, flows gently now the while our tears. But from His eternal garden of promise, There glows a warmth in sorrows gloom, And memories design a pattern fair to keep hope and everlasting love in bloom".
Burial was in the Emerson cemetery.
Those attending from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Myers, Lincoln, Nebr., Capt. and Mrs. Carl Duysen, St. Louis, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Snodgrass and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dammrow, Mrs. Arthur Strobehn, Council Bluffs, and Mrs. Frank Johnson, Denver, Colo., Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harmon and Mr. and Mrs. Bert McCollister, Glenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Moore, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Ames, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schoeder, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kilpatrick, Tabor; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Snodgrass, Russell Snodgrass, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Harold, Red Oak; Mr. and Mrs. August Duysen and Mr. and Mrs. John Rainbow, Henderson and representatives from the Watkins Lbr. Co., Omaha, Nebr.