Tom Snodgrass died peacefully on Monday, 10 April 2017, at Symphony Manor in Baltimore, MD. He was 98½ years old. Tom was born on 19 August 1918 in Minneapolis, MN, while his father, Thomas Joseph Snodgrass was serving in WWI. His mother was Nettie May Smith Snodgrass. The family settled in Janesville, WI, where his younger siblings Bill and Janet were born. Both of them predeceased him. The family spent summer vacations fishing and canoeing at the family log cabin called “The Brule” on the Brule River, a famous trout stream flowing into Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin. The cabin, a beloved, revitalizing place, remained in the family four generations, including Tom’s grandchildren, until 1993.
Tom graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1941, and received a second degree in metallurgical engineering from The Illinois Institute of Technology. He served in WWII as a metallurgical engineer at the Rock Island Arsenal, designing and building munitions for the war effort.
Tom Snodgrass met Jeanne B. Fritschle at the U of WI in 1939, when they were students. They were married 23 July 1943 in the middle of WWII at Jeanne’s home in Whitefish Bay, near Milwaukee, WI. His parents and her mother, Winifred Bowie Hewitt, attended the service. Their marriage was a story of true love and devoted partnership. They were a perfectly matched couple in intelligence, natural curiosity, integrity and meeting a challenge. Shortly after the war, Tom and Jeanne moved to Chicago, where their first son, James was born in 1947. Tom was hired by General Electric, and the young family moved to Trenton, NJ, where their second son, Richard (Rick) was born in 1950. Tom’s career took the family to Louisville, KY in 1952, where he headed up the GE team that developed the process to spray porcelain enamel on home appliances. That year Winifred (“Bom-Bom”), dearly beloved, came to live with the family, remaining so until her death in 1971. She and Tom grew extremely close, and he thought of her as a second mother. He and Jeanne built a beautiful, southern style home for their young family in KY, and built an exact replica of the house when they moved to Lake Forest, IL in 1959. In 1957, GE sent Tom to head up an early computer division in Phoenix, AZ, where the family spent the year living and traveling the West.
In 1963, Tom, a Vice President of the Hotpoint Division, left the corporate world to pursue a second career. He and Jeanne started a successful product evaluation business, applying value engineering, called Value Standards, INC. After their sons left for college, Tom and Jeanne moved to Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, where they spent happy years running their business and traveling. Over 25 years they visited nearly every country in the world. In 1978, Tom was offered a position teaching value engineering in the Engineering School at the U of WI. He and his wife Jeanne came full circle to where they had started out together. He retired as a Professor Emeritus at the age of 75 in 1993. He and Jeanne’s final international trip was a voyage half-way around the world in 1994, from San Francisco through the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea, finally disembarking in Spain. In 2001, Tom and Jeanne moved La Vida Llena, a retirement community in Albuquerque, NM. They lived in an apartment with a lovely view of the Sandia Mountains, and continued to travel around the Southwest until Jeanne’s death in 2010. In 2014, Tom moved to Symphony Manor in Baltimore, to be close to his son James and family.
Tom was a gentleman and a scholar, in the truest sense of that expression. Throughout his life he savored the pleasures of fishing a trout stream, eating oysters and drinking a fine wine. He was an accomplished amateur photographer, chronicling his family and extensive world travels with his wife. He was genuinely interested in and engaging with others, and left his mark on all who met him. He was a very generous person, helping family, friends and organizations in times of need with both his time and treasure. He was a devout and ecumenical Christian, attending and teaching in Church throughout his life. He will be missed by those who had the honor of knowing him, loving him and being a part of his long life. His was a life well lived and meaningful.
He is survived by his two sons, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a cousin, and nieces and nephews. Tom was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 67 years, Jeanne Bowie Fritschle Snodgrass, who died in March, 2010.
His funeral arrangements: a Memorial Service, 11 a.m., Tuesday morning, 2 May 2017, at Symphony Manor, 4301 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, and Christian Burial Service, 4 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, 2 May, at St. John’s Church (Episcopal), 114 N. Union Avenue, Havre de Grace, MD. He will be interred on 4 May 2017 at Valhalla Memorial Park, Milwaukee, WI, with his wife and her mother.
Tom graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1941, and received a second degree in metallurgical engineering from The Illinois Institute of Technology. He served in WWII as a metallurgical engineer at the Rock Island Arsenal, designing and building munitions for the war effort.
Tom Snodgrass met Jeanne B. Fritschle at the U of WI in 1939, when they were students. They were married 23 July 1943 in the middle of WWII at Jeanne’s home in Whitefish Bay, near Milwaukee, WI. His parents and her mother, Winifred Bowie Hewitt, attended the service. Their marriage was a story of true love and devoted partnership. They were a perfectly matched couple in intelligence, natural curiosity, integrity and meeting a challenge. Shortly after the war, Tom and Jeanne moved to Chicago, where their first son, James was born in 1947. Tom was hired by General Electric, and the young family moved to Trenton, NJ, where their second son, Richard (Rick) was born in 1950. Tom’s career took the family to Louisville, KY in 1952, where he headed up the GE team that developed the process to spray porcelain enamel on home appliances. That year Winifred (“Bom-Bom”), dearly beloved, came to live with the family, remaining so until her death in 1971. She and Tom grew extremely close, and he thought of her as a second mother. He and Jeanne built a beautiful, southern style home for their young family in KY, and built an exact replica of the house when they moved to Lake Forest, IL in 1959. In 1957, GE sent Tom to head up an early computer division in Phoenix, AZ, where the family spent the year living and traveling the West.
In 1963, Tom, a Vice President of the Hotpoint Division, left the corporate world to pursue a second career. He and Jeanne started a successful product evaluation business, applying value engineering, called Value Standards, INC. After their sons left for college, Tom and Jeanne moved to Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, where they spent happy years running their business and traveling. Over 25 years they visited nearly every country in the world. In 1978, Tom was offered a position teaching value engineering in the Engineering School at the U of WI. He and his wife Jeanne came full circle to where they had started out together. He retired as a Professor Emeritus at the age of 75 in 1993. He and Jeanne’s final international trip was a voyage half-way around the world in 1994, from San Francisco through the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea, finally disembarking in Spain. In 2001, Tom and Jeanne moved La Vida Llena, a retirement community in Albuquerque, NM. They lived in an apartment with a lovely view of the Sandia Mountains, and continued to travel around the Southwest until Jeanne’s death in 2010. In 2014, Tom moved to Symphony Manor in Baltimore, to be close to his son James and family.
Tom was a gentleman and a scholar, in the truest sense of that expression. Throughout his life he savored the pleasures of fishing a trout stream, eating oysters and drinking a fine wine. He was an accomplished amateur photographer, chronicling his family and extensive world travels with his wife. He was genuinely interested in and engaging with others, and left his mark on all who met him. He was a very generous person, helping family, friends and organizations in times of need with both his time and treasure. He was a devout and ecumenical Christian, attending and teaching in Church throughout his life. He will be missed by those who had the honor of knowing him, loving him and being a part of his long life. His was a life well lived and meaningful.
He is survived by his two sons, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a cousin, and nieces and nephews. Tom was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 67 years, Jeanne Bowie Fritschle Snodgrass, who died in March, 2010.
His funeral arrangements: a Memorial Service, 11 a.m., Tuesday morning, 2 May 2017, at Symphony Manor, 4301 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, and Christian Burial Service, 4 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, 2 May, at St. John’s Church (Episcopal), 114 N. Union Avenue, Havre de Grace, MD. He will be interred on 4 May 2017 at Valhalla Memorial Park, Milwaukee, WI, with his wife and her mother.
Tom Snodgrass died peacefully on Monday, 10 April 2017, at Symphony Manor in Baltimore, MD. He was 98½ years old. Tom was born on 19 August 1918 in Minneapolis, MN, while his father, Thomas Joseph Snodgrass was serving in WWI. His mother was Nettie May Smith Snodgrass. The family settled in Janesville, WI, where his younger siblings Bill and Janet were born. Both of them predeceased him. The family spent summer vacations fishing and canoeing at the family log cabin called “The Brule” on the Brule River, a famous trout stream flowing into Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin. The cabin, a beloved, revitalizing place, remained in the family four generations, including Tom’s grandchildren, until 1993.
Tom graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1941, and received a second degree in metallurgical engineering from The Illinois Institute of Technology. He served in WWII as a metallurgical engineer at the Rock Island Arsenal, designing and building munitions for the war effort.
Tom Snodgrass met Jeanne B. Fritschle at the U of WI in 1939, when they were students. They were married 23 July 1943 in the middle of WWII at Jeanne’s home in Whitefish Bay, near Milwaukee, WI. His parents and her mother, Winifred Bowie Hewitt, attended the service. Their marriage was a story of true love and devoted partnership. They were a perfectly matched couple in intelligence, natural curiosity, integrity and meeting a challenge. Shortly after the war, Tom and Jeanne moved to Chicago, where their first son, James was born in 1947. Tom was hired by General Electric, and the young family moved to Trenton, NJ, where their second son, Richard (Rick) was born in 1950. Tom’s career took the family to Louisville, KY in 1952, where he headed up the GE team that developed the process to spray porcelain enamel on home appliances. That year Winifred (“Bom-Bom”), dearly beloved, came to live with the family, remaining so until her death in 1971. She and Tom grew extremely close, and he thought of her as a second mother. He and Jeanne built a beautiful, southern style home for their young family in KY, and built an exact replica of the house when they moved to Lake Forest, IL in 1959. In 1957, GE sent Tom to head up an early computer division in Phoenix, AZ, where the family spent the year living and traveling the West.
In 1963, Tom, a Vice President of the Hotpoint Division, left the corporate world to pursue a second career. He and Jeanne started a successful product evaluation business, applying value engineering, called Value Standards, INC. After their sons left for college, Tom and Jeanne moved to Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, where they spent happy years running their business and traveling. Over 25 years they visited nearly every country in the world. In 1978, Tom was offered a position teaching value engineering in the Engineering School at the U of WI. He and his wife Jeanne came full circle to where they had started out together. He retired as a Professor Emeritus at the age of 75 in 1993. He and Jeanne’s final international trip was a voyage half-way around the world in 1994, from San Francisco through the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea, finally disembarking in Spain. In 2001, Tom and Jeanne moved La Vida Llena, a retirement community in Albuquerque, NM. They lived in an apartment with a lovely view of the Sandia Mountains, and continued to travel around the Southwest until Jeanne’s death in 2010. In 2014, Tom moved to Symphony Manor in Baltimore, to be close to his son James and family.
Tom was a gentleman and a scholar, in the truest sense of that expression. Throughout his life he savored the pleasures of fishing a trout stream, eating oysters and drinking a fine wine. He was an accomplished amateur photographer, chronicling his family and extensive world travels with his wife. He was genuinely interested in and engaging with others, and left his mark on all who met him. He was a very generous person, helping family, friends and organizations in times of need with both his time and treasure. He was a devout and ecumenical Christian, attending and teaching in Church throughout his life. He will be missed by those who had the honor of knowing him, loving him and being a part of his long life. His was a life well lived and meaningful.
He is survived by his two sons, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a cousin, and nieces and nephews. Tom was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 67 years, Jeanne Bowie Fritschle Snodgrass, who died in March, 2010.
His funeral arrangements: a Memorial Service, 11 a.m., Tuesday morning, 2 May 2017, at Symphony Manor, 4301 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, and Christian Burial Service, 4 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, 2 May, at St. John’s Church (Episcopal), 114 N. Union Avenue, Havre de Grace, MD. He will be interred on 4 May 2017 at Valhalla Memorial Park, Milwaukee, WI, with his wife and her mother.
Tom graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1941, and received a second degree in metallurgical engineering from The Illinois Institute of Technology. He served in WWII as a metallurgical engineer at the Rock Island Arsenal, designing and building munitions for the war effort.
Tom Snodgrass met Jeanne B. Fritschle at the U of WI in 1939, when they were students. They were married 23 July 1943 in the middle of WWII at Jeanne’s home in Whitefish Bay, near Milwaukee, WI. His parents and her mother, Winifred Bowie Hewitt, attended the service. Their marriage was a story of true love and devoted partnership. They were a perfectly matched couple in intelligence, natural curiosity, integrity and meeting a challenge. Shortly after the war, Tom and Jeanne moved to Chicago, where their first son, James was born in 1947. Tom was hired by General Electric, and the young family moved to Trenton, NJ, where their second son, Richard (Rick) was born in 1950. Tom’s career took the family to Louisville, KY in 1952, where he headed up the GE team that developed the process to spray porcelain enamel on home appliances. That year Winifred (“Bom-Bom”), dearly beloved, came to live with the family, remaining so until her death in 1971. She and Tom grew extremely close, and he thought of her as a second mother. He and Jeanne built a beautiful, southern style home for their young family in KY, and built an exact replica of the house when they moved to Lake Forest, IL in 1959. In 1957, GE sent Tom to head up an early computer division in Phoenix, AZ, where the family spent the year living and traveling the West.
In 1963, Tom, a Vice President of the Hotpoint Division, left the corporate world to pursue a second career. He and Jeanne started a successful product evaluation business, applying value engineering, called Value Standards, INC. After their sons left for college, Tom and Jeanne moved to Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, where they spent happy years running their business and traveling. Over 25 years they visited nearly every country in the world. In 1978, Tom was offered a position teaching value engineering in the Engineering School at the U of WI. He and his wife Jeanne came full circle to where they had started out together. He retired as a Professor Emeritus at the age of 75 in 1993. He and Jeanne’s final international trip was a voyage half-way around the world in 1994, from San Francisco through the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea, finally disembarking in Spain. In 2001, Tom and Jeanne moved La Vida Llena, a retirement community in Albuquerque, NM. They lived in an apartment with a lovely view of the Sandia Mountains, and continued to travel around the Southwest until Jeanne’s death in 2010. In 2014, Tom moved to Symphony Manor in Baltimore, to be close to his son James and family.
Tom was a gentleman and a scholar, in the truest sense of that expression. Throughout his life he savored the pleasures of fishing a trout stream, eating oysters and drinking a fine wine. He was an accomplished amateur photographer, chronicling his family and extensive world travels with his wife. He was genuinely interested in and engaging with others, and left his mark on all who met him. He was a very generous person, helping family, friends and organizations in times of need with both his time and treasure. He was a devout and ecumenical Christian, attending and teaching in Church throughout his life. He will be missed by those who had the honor of knowing him, loving him and being a part of his long life. His was a life well lived and meaningful.
He is survived by his two sons, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a cousin, and nieces and nephews. Tom was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 67 years, Jeanne Bowie Fritschle Snodgrass, who died in March, 2010.
His funeral arrangements: a Memorial Service, 11 a.m., Tuesday morning, 2 May 2017, at Symphony Manor, 4301 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, and Christian Burial Service, 4 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, 2 May, at St. John’s Church (Episcopal), 114 N. Union Avenue, Havre de Grace, MD. He will be interred on 4 May 2017 at Valhalla Memorial Park, Milwaukee, WI, with his wife and her mother.
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