SNODDERLY, Lyman "Buck" - b. April 12, 1916 - d. September 18, 1999

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Independence Reporter
Tuesday, September 21, 1999


HOWARD---- Lyman "Buck" Snodderly, 83, a former Howard resident died Saturday at Spring Creek Health Care in Fort Collins, Colo.

Services will be at 10 a. m. Wednesday at Zimmerman Funeral Home in Howard with the Rev. Kibum of the United Methodist Church officiating.  The Masonic funeral service will be conducted by the Hope Lodge, and military graveside services will be conducted by American Legion Carter-Rader Post at Grace Lawn Cemetery in Howard.

Memorials are suggested to the Howard United Methodist Church and may be left with the funeral home.

Mr. Snodderly was born on April 12, 1916 in Kiowa to Elmer E. and Rachel M (Lyman) Snodderly.  He attended rural school near Kiowa and graduated from Kiowa High School in 1935.

During the late 1930s, he was a member of the Civilian Conversation Corps in Ashland and Meade.  He joined the Army in 1942 and served in the Pacific Theatre as an infantry sergant. He earned the Bronze Star as well as a Purple Heart for his action in combat.  He was honorably discharged in 1945.

On July 17, 1945, he married Mary Ellen Andrews in Wellington. They lived in Howard where he was employed as a rural letter carrier for the U. S. Postal Service.  He also was an assistant district representative for the Boy Scouts of America.

He was a member of Carter-Rader Post of the American Legion, Columbua Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, Hope Lodge No. 155 A. F. & A. M. and the United Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, Dr. Paul Snodderly, Fort Collins, Colo., and John Snodderly, Post Falls, Idaho; two sisters, Faye Troyer, Medicine Lodge, and Nancy Regear, Reedley, Calif; six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Casketbearers will be Jim Criger, Richard Fish, Glenn Miller, Bill Redmond, John Snodderly and Dr. Paul Snodderly.