Katherine Lucille Snyder died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday. She was born July 28, 1920, one of eight children. She graduated from Great Bend (Ks.) High School in 1938 and moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she made her home with her sister and family, and where she was employed until her marriage.
She married Joseph R. Snyder on April 4, 1943, and joined him in several places during World War II until he was sent to the Pacific as a press officer on General Douglas MacArthur’s staff. She then returned to Kansas City and worked in the office of the Pratt-Whitney Aircraft factory. At the war’s end, the Snyder’s purchased their first weekly newspaper with money that Kathy saved from Joe’s wartime paycheck and her own earnings. They remained in the newspaper business in the Midwest, except for a brief stint while Joe served in Korea, until moving to
San Marcos in 2001 to be near their daughter and family. Joe died in 2014. Kathy also was preceded in death by her parents and seven brothers and sisters.
