SNYDER, Wilma B. 1900-2001

SNYDER, ARP, KETELSEN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/4/2009 at 18:26:51

WILMA B. SNYDER

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OSAGE, IOWA - Wilma B. Snyder, 101, died Saturday (April 28, 2001) at Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Osage.

A funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 402 State St., Osage, with the Rev. Christian F. Gugel officiating. Interment will be in Osage Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, and will continue one hour before the service at the church Wednesday.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, (641) 732-3706

Globe Gazette, 4/30/2001

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Wilma B. Snyder, age 101, died on Saturday, April 28, 2001, at the Osage Rehabilitation Center, Osage.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, May 2, at 10:30 a.m., at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Osage. Rev. Christian F. Gugel officiated and interment was in the Osage Cemetery. The Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Wilma was born on February 23, 1900 in Gladbrook, Iowa, the daughter of August and Anna (Arp) Ketelsen. She married Earl Snyder on October 3, 1924 in Osage. They lived south of Osage on Cedar Street. Earl died in 1950.

Wilma always had a big garden and worked as an egg candler at the Osage Produce, retiring in 1965. In 1997 she and her daughter, Irene Ogden bought a house together. She broke her hip and after getting out of the hospital, went to the Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Osage for therapy. Wilma liked it so much there she chose to stay as a resident.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Earl in 1950; a sister; two brothers; a grandson, Dick Ogden; and a son-in-law, Leo Ogden.

Those that survive her include a daughter, Irene Ogden of Osage; a sister, Loraine Busch of California; two grandchildren, Deb Pape of Osage and Daniel Ogden and wife, LaDonna of Osage; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

© 2001 Mitchell County Press - May 2, 2001