Mary Gallup Snider

Mary Evangeline Gallup Snider departed our world in peace with her family at her side on Sunday, August 30th, 2020 at the Alexandria Inova Hospital. Her death resulted from a severe lung infection following a recent diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a secondary cancer related to her 2009 Multiple Myeloma cancer condition, which had been in remission.

Mary was born to Mr. Benton Babbit Gallup and Mrs. Beverly Victory Hibbard Gallup on March 2nd, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois. The family resided in Morgan Park throughout her childhood but relocated to Hinsdale, Illinois in 1961, where she graduated from Hinsdale High School in 1963. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Cornell College in 1967 where her passion as a painter was for color school artwork and art history. In I971 she married Richard D. Snider of Bethesda, Maryland and they remained a loving couple for 49 years. She was a creative and beloved teacher at the Potomac School in McLean Virginia until her retirement in 2003 and worked previously as the Director of Financial Aid at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C

Her immediate family has a wealth of loving memories stored up for the future, in which she is survived by her husband, Richard D. Snider, of Alexandria, VA, her son Benton Davis Snider and her daughter in law Kimberly Panozzo Snider, as well as her daughter, Sara Snider Papademetriou, her son in law, Nicholas Papademetriou and her 7 year old grandson Luca Beck Papademetriou, all of Washington, D.C. as well as her brother, John Edward Gallup and sister in law Rita Bassi Gallup of La Jolla CA.

As was her wish, she was cremated and her ashes will be kept at her beloved Bethany Beach, DE home and the British Virgin Islands home she visited often. Funeral arrangements are provided by the Demaine Funeral Home of 520 S Washington St, Alexandria, VA.

In lieu of flowers or other gifts of any kind, the family requests that donations be made to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society where gifts can be personalized in her memory @ give.lls.org so that as the future unfolds, she will be an integral part of the cure for this terrible disease.