Claude changed the spelling of his name from Schnider to Snider during WWII, apparently to sound less German, not poupular at the time. by Sandy Souto, 5 May 2012
Claudine Thomas (Scnider) SNIDER
14 Nov 2012
Good morning Larry!
My half great-aunt, Claudine Snider, my grandmother's half sister, is still living.
Her daughter, Mary Bonney, is living as well. Claudine was born in 1927 in California to Claude Thomas Snider and his first wife Helen, who was said to have been institutionalized for mental illness. My great-grandmother's third husband, Ivan McMurphy, had 4 children with his first wife Mary; Beulah, Eugenia, Mary, and Larry. I don't know anything about them. My grandmother's (Patsy Snider) half brother, Douglas Fisher Snider was born 1928 and died in 1998 in Tyler, Texas. Her half sister, Flowella Fisher Snider, was born in 1932 but I don't know what year she died in. It was when I was a teenager or preteen I think. Ida Elizabeth Hiatt died in 1989, and I think Flowella died a couple years after that. So, maybe early 1990s. My grandmother, Patsy Lee Snider, was born May 13, 1934 and is still living. Her husband, Demoin Guy Witt, was born in 1930 and died April 9, 2003. All their children are still alive.They've only lost one grandchild.