Edward Furnas Snyder

By Staff on January 1, 2017

Snyder—Edward Furnas Snyder, 90, on August 12, 2016, in Bar Harbor, Maine, after a brief, rapid decline, surrounded in his last days and hours by family and friends. Ed was born on November 13, 1925, in Belle Plaine, Iowa, the oldest of three children of Mary Ella Blue and Edward F. Snyder Sr. His father died when he was seven, and his mother returned to school and taught at University of Maine. He attended Bowdoin College before joining the Army Air Corps in 1944 and graduated from University of Maine, where🔒

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