Jules Edouard Schneider III

Steve graduated from Texas Country Day School in Dallas in 1948. He graduated from Amherst College in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics. He joined Phi Delta Theta fraternity and was manager of the swim team. He also attended the University of Texas in Austin, and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He was an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments until 1961 when he joined the Dallas office of the investment counsel firm, Lionel D. Edie & Company. In 1965, he moved to Houston as manager of that office. He later joined VALIC from which he retired in 1993.

Steve married Sally Marie Reeder of Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1958. He loved and treasured his life with her as he did with their two children, Susan Britt Schneider of Dallas and John Baker Schneider of Houston. He is also survived by his sister, Adair Schneider Gregory of Dallas, and other relatives in Houston and Dallas.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where he served as Deacon, Elder and Clerk of Session. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Houston, the Executives Association of Houston, Houston Country Club, Allegro, the Paul Jones Dancing Club and several other esteemed Houston organizations. In Dallas, he belonged to the Brook Hollow Golf Club, the Idlewild Club, the Terpsichorean Club and was a past president of the Calyx Club. He was a member of the Coral Beach and Tennis Club in Bermuda. He was an avid tennis player. He also thoroughly enjoyed summers in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, where he had worked as a teenager and later vacationed for years with his family.

A memorial service is to be conducted at half-past ten o'clock in the morning on Thursday, the 18th of June, at First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main Street in Houston, where Rev. Dr. Bill Heston, Executive Pastor, is to officiate. Immediately following the service, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the nearby Fellowship Hall.

A private interment will be conducted at Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park in Dallas.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions may be directed to First Presbyterian Church – Operation ID, 5330 Main St., Houston, TX, 77004; or to Houston Hospice, 1905 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030.