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Barbara Ruth Snyder

ORWELL: Barbara Ruth Snyder, age 86, passed away on Friday, February 27, 2015, at Porter Medical Center in Middlebury.
    Barbara was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 24, 1928, the daughter of Moses and Edna (Titherington) Sneed. She grew up in North Smithfield, RI where she received her early education and then worked in graphic design and professional hand modeling. She then attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Kenneth Calvin Snyder. They were married on June 9, 1951 at her family home in North Smithfield, RI, where they started their family. She was the seventh generation to have lived in the family home. They first came to Vermont in 1968 and moved permanently here in 1974. After raising the family she worked in various positions at area businesses and later worked as the executive assistant to the chief of operations at Geiger of Austria in Middlebury. She was an accomplished musician having played piano, violin and guitar. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, reading and poetry. She was an amazing lady and talented artist in oil, and pen and ink sketching. Barbara belonged to the Order of The Eastern Star in Rhode Island and later Vermont where she was a pianist at their events. She was a member of the Lime Rock Baptist Church in Lincoln, R.I. and later attended both the Shoreham and Orwell Congregational Churches, where she had also played piano and organ. Barbara was active in the Orwell community as a long-time volunteer in the Art Department at the Orwell Village School where she loved teaching and assisting the students. She was also a member of the Over 60 club and a volunteer at the Orwell Free Library.
    Barbara is survived by her husband; Kenneth Calvin Snyder of Orwell, her children; David K Snyder and his partner Gladys Morse of Manchester, CT, Kathryn J. Lang and her husband Richard of Moriah, NY, Clinton W. Snyder and his wife Leslie of Whiting, VT and Karen E. Carpenter and her husband Christopher of Rutland; 2 grandchildren; Clinton C. Snyder and his wife Miranda and Scharene Snyder-Bovell and her husband Andrew; a great grandson; Xavier James Scott Bovell; and a special sister; Lorraine Laprey of North Smithfield, RI. She was predeceased by a son, Scott Gordon Snyder in 1981.
    The graveside committal service and burial will take place at a later date in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery in Orwell. Family and friends will share in the ceremony.
    Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made in her memory to the Orwell Village School Art Department through the First National Bank of Orwell, PO Box 38, Orwell, VT 05760.
    Arrangements are under the direction of the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.

Doris Mae Senecal

MIDDLEBURY: Doris Mae Senecal, age 91, died Friday, February 27, 2015, at Helen Porter Health & Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.
    Mrs. Senecal was born in Salisbury on November 10, 1923. She was the daughter of Willard and Lucy (Ladd) Morse. She grew up in Salisbury and received her education in Salisbury Plains School and Lake Dunmore School. January 15, 1944 she married Irvin Senecal in Brandon. They moved to Whiting in 1956. She has been a resident of Middlebury since 1986. Mr. Senecal predeceased her May 15, 2007. She had worked as a volunteer at Porter Hospital, Project Independence and the Middlebury Chamber of Commerce. In earlier years she had been a 4 H leader in Whiting. She had attended the Whiting Community Church and had worked with the church youth group. She also attended Middlebury Methodist Church and was a member of the Middlebury Senior Citizens.
    Surviving are 2 daughters; Barbara Ann Beauregard of Brandon and Phyllis Lucy Warren of Sunderland, a son; Stuart Irvin Senecal of Rutland and 1 sister; Marjorie Patterson of Vergennes. 8 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, 4 great, great grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews & cousins also survive her. She was also predeceased by a sister; Flora Johnson and a brother; Robert W. Morse.
    The funeral service will take place, at a later date and time to be announced, at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon. The graveside committal service and burial will follow the ceremony, in Pine Hill Cemetery.
Calling hours are private.
    Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in her memory to; Helen Porter Health & Rehabilitation Center, Memory Care Unit, 30 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT or The Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association, 19 Elm Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.
    Arrangements are under the direction of the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.

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