Jean Snider

Services for Jean C. Davis Snider, 69, Logansport, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Gundrum Funeral Home.

She died at 12:52 p.m. Friday, March 28, 2008, in a traffic accident at County Road 300S and Ind. 25 South.

Born June 15, 1938, in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of Edwin Burton “Bus” and Georgia Mackey Davis.

Jean was a graduate of Indianapolis Shortridge High School in 1956, received her bachelor’s degree from Hanover College in 1960, and her master’s degree from Indiana University in 1972. She retired in 1997 as a first grade teacher in the Logansport School Corporation teaching at Columbia, Tipton and Landis elementary schools. She taught first grade a total of 40 years; after her retirement she substituted for several years at other local schools, and also was a permanent substitute at Franklin Elementary. She also taught in Indianapolis and Monticello. She was a superior teacher, and almost all who had her as a teacher learned to read, and her classes always scored well on the state and other required tests of progress. She was very proud her classes’ progress and scores through the years.

She was a beloved and highly respected teacher who adored her students and they adored her. Several became teachers because of their admiration of her. She expected much, gave all of herself and her abilities and in return her students achieved much. Her contact with many of her students didn’t end with the first grade as she attended activities and ball games of many of her former students.

Jean’s son, grandchildren and her niece were the loves of her life. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, aunt and a friend to all she knew. She always greeted everyone with a smile and “Hi, honey” and always had time to talk to them. She was an extremely kind, caring and loving person who, when able, generously helped her friends and family whenever they were in need. She had trouble understanding when she knew about others who were not behaving or performing in a proper way. She was a very traditional person who had high morals, ethics and standards and lived her life by them.

Jean was an avid IU fan, loved to read, watch figure skating, IU games and movies on television, spend time with family, friends and her aunt, Frances Davis, and cousins, Barb Dingeldein and Susie Cox, who were like sisters, and especially her dearly loved grandsons. She also volunteered in the Mary Dykeman Guild Gift Shop at Memorial Hospital.

She was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority and a lifetime member of Indiana State Teachers Association and National Education Association.

Surviving are son, Jerald “Jerry” Snider and his wife, Terra, Logansport; grandsons, Brody and Connor Snider; niece, Katie Davis, Oakland, Calif.; aunt, Frances Davis-Meyer, Logansport; aunt and uncle, Kenneth and Evelyn Mackey Badgley, Galion, Ohio; first cousins, Jerry and Barb Davis Dingeldein, and Rich and Susie Davis Cox, all of Logansport, W. Bradley and Jaynie Davis, Indianapolis, Nancy McCray, Raymore, Mo., Jerry and Gary Badgley, Sandy Hibbs, Sally Kern, Sue Brown, Lynn Patterson, and Clarence “Mack” Mackey; other cousins, Wendy Dingeldein Waltz and Mavrick, Logansport, Kelly Cox, Heidi Cox Lucy and Brandi Cox Rozzi, all of Logansport, Brock Cox, Springfield, Ohio, Eric Cox, Madison, Wis., Mike, Gus and Elise Davis, all of Indianapolis, Eve Vinzant, Birmingham, Ala., and Nicky Huff, Logansport.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Joan M. Davis, and one brother, John M. “Jack” Davis.

The Rev. Dr. Horace Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.gundrumfuneralhome.com

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