Ann Claire
(Ledbetter) Snyder passed away peacefully on January 28, 2018
following a lengthy battle with COPD. Graveside services will be
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at the Malta Cemetery.
Condolences for the family may be left at
www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com
A devoted
wife and loving mother, Ann was born in Anniston, Alabama on
March 26, 1938. She spent her early years in Alabama, until, in
her early teens, her family moved to Soda Springs, Idaho. She
attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where she met and
fell in love with Paul T. Snyder, who was going through pilot
training for the US Air Force at Reese Air Force Base. They were
married June 27, 1959 and were assigned to Malmstrom Air Force
Base later that year. During their stay in Great Falls, Ann
taught English at Paris Gibson Junior High until the birth of
their son, Kenneth, in 1962. Paul was later transferred to
Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, TX, where their daughter, Susan, was
born in 1966. After Paul left the Air Force and went to work for
Western Airlines in 1968, the family settled in Kent Washington,
where they lived until 1985, when Ann and Paul moved to
Whitefish, Montana. In 2006 Ann and Paul returned to Great Falls
where she spent the remainder of her years.
Ann had an eye for photography and captured many
beautiful photographs from her travels around the United States.
Though she loved to travel, the place she loved the most was the
family cabin Paul built in Glacier National Park north of
Polebridge, where she and the family spent many happy times over
the years. After she and Paul returned to Great Falls, Ann
resumed old friendships and acquired many new friends. She
especially enjoyed spending time with friends and classmates of
Paul's from Malta and the Phillips County area, as well as many
other friends from Great Falls.
Ann is survived by her husband, Paul, her sister Karen
"Kay" Womack (Bill) of Boise, Idaho, her son Kenneth and his
wife Donna of Spring, Texas, and her daughter Susan McNay and
her husband Lindsay of Great Falls. She has four grandchildren,
Carson and his wife Bri, Kari McNay, and Robin and Kevin Snyder,
and one great grandchild Josie McNay. She was predeceased by her
parents, Orva Leta (Irving) Ledbetter and Jules Alford Ledbetter
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