It was a great pleasure to get to know Larry and to fish around him and Carla. The river will never be the same
 Our thoughts are with Carla and your family.

"Mr. Snyder" (as we addressed him at school) was my Science teacher at Columbia River High School. His obituary says he spent a majority of his teaching career at Middle Schools. In that case he would have been my Science teacher at Jason Lee Jr. High ~ Still I think it was Columbia River High School when I had the pleasure of being one of his students. Not every teacher left a positive impression or any impression at all when I think back but "Mr. Snyder" did. He was one of the "good" teachers everyone hoped to land in his class. In his Science class we had to dissect a frog!!! Yuck. Good thing "Mr. Snyder" let us pick a partner for that class assignment, because I could NEVER have dissected a frog! It was a BIG relief he let us pick partners. I picked a guy partner so he could do the dissecting ... I'd be the note taker for the experiment. My Science lab partner and I got an "A". Would have been a much lower grade if I had to do the actual frog dissecting myself! Larry was a really great teacher. Always enjoyed his class and he was so good at engaging students ~ everyone liked him. I never knew is first name was "Larry" until he passed away. He was always Mr. Snyder to me, even though besides being one of my teachers he was also a distant cousin through marriage = I only knew him from school as Mr. Snyder and just so you know, he never gave me preferential treatment in his class. He was just an awesome teacher who loved his job and had a gift of making education fun, even if it was a required Science course AND dissecting frogs!!!

I will always have fond memories of my Science teacher, "Mr. Snyder."

Larry Snyder joined the Vancouver Wildlife League in the early 1980s. Within a few years he became club secretary and a short time later was named the official letter writer for club affairs. His writing skills and good disposition made him a natural.  
Larry was elected to the office of president in 1999, a position he would hold for the next 15 years. He was a familiar face at public meetings and highly respected by wildlife agencies as well as the community. Larry was a serious waterfowl hunter and a highly successful fisherman. 
Larry Snyder will surely be missed by the Vancouver Wildlife League.

I knew Larry just a few years.  He was so helpful at the thrift stores Carla and I volunteered in. We always had fun at the Sons of Norway leutefisk dinners.  I got to know Larry because of my friendship with Carla Lehto, his companion and loving caregiver in his last years.

Your dad, Larry, had a great gift of talking to us teenagers.  Of all my friends' dads, yours was the one who encouraged a young man to think about things differently and helped me, as well as hundreds of others, I'm sure, feel good about themselves.  God Bless.

I am honored to have beenable to have had Larry as a friend for 40 years. I always enjoyed all the fishing trips as a matter of fact the very first salmon my son ever caught was with Larry in the mouth of the Lewis river. I'll always remember all the great conversations we had in the old boiler room in Shumway Middle School. He will truly be missed by everyone who knew him except for the salmon in the Columbia River

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Larry W Snyder

23 mars 1940 – 28 février 2016

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