Eleanor Carol Snyder

Passed away on 29 May 2025 in Mabank, Texas. She was born the 22 February 1929 to Desoto Watson and Mable Orpha (Holmes) Davis in Echo, Oregon. She was the youngest of 4 children. They moved to Pendleton, Oregon where her father was County Commissioner. After high school she went to the University of Oregon and met Shirley Ebbe, her roommate that became a lifetime friend. She was a softball pitched at the University of Oregon. She and Roy Oliver Snyder met in Pendleton and were married on 26 September 1950 in Pendleton. They moved to Umatilla, Oregon, where Roy worked on the McNary Dam project and then on to The Dalles, Oregon where they were for 50 years. They had 5 children -- 3 daughters: Susan, Joan, and Ann; and two sons: John and Steve. Eleanor learned how to use a Geiger counter in the 60's and was the President of Girl Scouts in the Oregon region for a few years. The family went camping in a tent until they got a small trailer, going to the coast in Oregon and Washington as well as the mountains. She and Roy traveled extensively from coast to coast visiting family and friends after the children left home; even took a trip through Canada to Connecticut to see their youngest, Steve, and his family. They also traveled to Alaska to visit her sister Helen and spent some time working at lodge there. She still has many friends in The Dalles, Oregon and talks about good times in Oregon. She got hooked on doing Genealogy as the children left home and was a volunteer at the Genealogy Library in The Dalles until she moved to Thatcher, Arizona with her Granddaughter Kathy and family. After 5 years in Arizona she moved to Mabank, Texas to be with her daughter Susan and her husband Frank Stokes. She is survived by her children, Susan, John, Ann and Steve, 2 step children, Elizabeth and Frank Jr, her sister-in-law June Cresci, 9 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren many nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her sisters and brother, husband, daughter Joan and grandson Tanner Severson. She will be missed by all that knew her.