Edith Cook 'Drucie" Snyder was born on June 15, 1925, in Forrest City, Arkansas. She was the daughter and only child of John Wesley and Carrie Evlyn Cook Snyder.
MARRIAGE: Secretary Snyder's Daughter Weds In Glittering Capital Social Event
Trumans Among 2000 Guests
Washington. (UP) – Drucie Snyder, winsome 24-year-old daughter of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, was married Thursday (January 26, 1950) to Major John Ernest Horton, with Margaret Truman as maid of honor and the President and Mrs. Truman among the 2000 guests.
It was the first wedding of a Cabinet officer's daughter since the early 1930s, and by far the most glittering social event of the capital's current season.
Miss Snyder, wearing an Elizabethan-style bridal gown fashioned of 48 yards of creamy white brocade and satin, with a silk tulle veil falling to the hem of the train, was given away by her father as the President and first lady looked on and beamed.
The President's daughter, as maid of honor, wore a gown of misty green over turquoise taffeta and carried a contrasting bouquet of blue iris and lavender lilacs.
Craig Stevens of Hollywood was best man. His movie star wife, Alexis Smith, was among the guests who included many notables, among them Financier Bernard M. Baruch, President Charles E. Wilson of General Electric Co., Movie Producer Nathan J. Blumberg and Rubber Magnates Harvey Firestone, Jr., and John L. Collyer and their wives.
The ceremony took place in Washington Episcopal Cathedral.
Officiating was the Rev. Malcolm Marshall of Saint Margaret's Episcopal Church.
Drucie (Edith is her real name) was one of the most popular "bachelor girls" in the capital. Her bridegroom is 30 years old and an aide to the President. He must give up that post now because married men don't qualify.
An hour after the 5 p.m. ceremony, the young couple greeted more than 2000 guests in the exclusive Chevy Chase Country Club. Then they departed for a Florida honeymoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman, who occupied a front row pew alongside Mrs. Snyder, are old friends of both the bride and groom. Drucie has been almost a "second daughter" to the Trumans since she was nine.
Published in the El Paso Times (El Paso, Texas) January 27, 1950, page 13.
They had three children – one son and two daughters.
OBITUARY: CHARLESTON – Drucie Snyder Horton Dies of Stroke at 73
Drucie Snyder Horton, the daughter of Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder of the Truman Administration, has died from complications following a stroke. She was 73.
Mrs. Horton, wife of John E. Horton and a resident of Seabrook Island, spent most of her adult life in the Washington, D.C area, where she was Salvation Army Auxiliary president and Bradford Junior College Alumni president.
Published in The State (Columbia, South Carolina) May 1, 1999, page B2 (page 6).
OBITUARY: Drucie Horton, 73, Dies
Drucie Snyder Horton, 73, who had been active in volunteer, civic and cultural groups when she lived in Washington from 1984, died April 29 at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, after a stroke. She lived in Seabrook, South Carolina.
She was a daughter of John W. Snyder, who served as secretary of the treasury during the Truman administration.
During her Washington years, Mrs. Horton had been active in the Junior League, served as president of a Salvation Army auxiliary and was a trustee of the primary Day School. She also did volunteer work for Sidwell Friends, Holton Arms and St Stephens's schools in the Washington area.
She was a founding member of the Hoe and Hope Garden Club and had belonged to the Columbia Country Club.
Mrs. Horton, who was born in Arkansas, was a 1947 theater graduate of George Washington University. In 1950, she married John Horton in a Washington wedding attended by then President Harry S. Truman, his wife Bess Truman with their daughter, Margaret, serving as maid of honor.
Mrs. Horton served as maid of honor to Margaret Truman at the christening and commissioning of the battleship Missouri in 1944 and as matron of honor in the 1986 recommissioning of the "Mighty Mo." In 1998, she substituted for Margaret Truman at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Harry S. Truman.
In addition to her husband, of Seabrook, survivors include a son and two daughters, and two grandchildren.
Amended from the original obituary published in the Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) May 4, 1999. Names of the living redacted.
MARRIAGE: Secretary Snyder's Daughter Weds In Glittering Capital Social Event
Trumans Among 2000 Guests
Washington. (UP) – Drucie Snyder, winsome 24-year-old daughter of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, was married Thursday (January 26, 1950) to Major John Ernest Horton, with Margaret Truman as maid of honor and the President and Mrs. Truman among the 2000 guests.
It was the first wedding of a Cabinet officer's daughter since the early 1930s, and by far the most glittering social event of the capital's current season.
Miss Snyder, wearing an Elizabethan-style bridal gown fashioned of 48 yards of creamy white brocade and satin, with a silk tulle veil falling to the hem of the train, was given away by her father as the President and first lady looked on and beamed.
The President's daughter, as maid of honor, wore a gown of misty green over turquoise taffeta and carried a contrasting bouquet of blue iris and lavender lilacs.
Craig Stevens of Hollywood was best man. His movie star wife, Alexis Smith, was among the guests who included many notables, among them Financier Bernard M. Baruch, President Charles E. Wilson of General Electric Co., Movie Producer Nathan J. Blumberg and Rubber Magnates Harvey Firestone, Jr., and John L. Collyer and their wives.
The ceremony took place in Washington Episcopal Cathedral.
Officiating was the Rev. Malcolm Marshall of Saint Margaret's Episcopal Church.
Drucie (Edith is her real name) was one of the most popular "bachelor girls" in the capital. Her bridegroom is 30 years old and an aide to the President. He must give up that post now because married men don't qualify.
An hour after the 5 p.m. ceremony, the young couple greeted more than 2000 guests in the exclusive Chevy Chase Country Club. Then they departed for a Florida honeymoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman, who occupied a front row pew alongside Mrs. Snyder, are old friends of both the bride and groom. Drucie has been almost a "second daughter" to the Trumans since she was nine.
Published in the El Paso Times (El Paso, Texas) January 27, 1950, page 13.
They had three children – one son and two daughters.
OBITUARY: CHARLESTON – Drucie Snyder Horton Dies of Stroke at 73
Drucie Snyder Horton, the daughter of Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder of the Truman Administration, has died from complications following a stroke. She was 73.
Mrs. Horton, wife of John E. Horton and a resident of Seabrook Island, spent most of her adult life in the Washington, D.C area, where she was Salvation Army Auxiliary president and Bradford Junior College Alumni president.
Published in The State (Columbia, South Carolina) May 1, 1999, page B2 (page 6).
OBITUARY: Drucie Horton, 73, Dies
Drucie Snyder Horton, 73, who had been active in volunteer, civic and cultural groups when she lived in Washington from 1984, died April 29 at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, after a stroke. She lived in Seabrook, South Carolina.
She was a daughter of John W. Snyder, who served as secretary of the treasury during the Truman administration.
During her Washington years, Mrs. Horton had been active in the Junior League, served as president of a Salvation Army auxiliary and was a trustee of the primary Day School. She also did volunteer work for Sidwell Friends, Holton Arms and St Stephens's schools in the Washington area.
She was a founding member of the Hoe and Hope Garden Club and had belonged to the Columbia Country Club.
Mrs. Horton, who was born in Arkansas, was a 1947 theater graduate of George Washington University. In 1950, she married John Horton in a Washington wedding attended by then President Harry S. Truman, his wife Bess Truman with their daughter, Margaret, serving as maid of honor.
Mrs. Horton served as maid of honor to Margaret Truman at the christening and commissioning of the battleship Missouri in 1944 and as matron of honor in the 1986 recommissioning of the "Mighty Mo." In 1998, she substituted for Margaret Truman at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Harry S. Truman.
In addition to her husband, of Seabrook, survivors include a son and two daughters, and two grandchildren.
Amended from the original obituary published in the Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) May 4, 1999. Names of the living redacted.
Edith Cook 'Drucie" Snyder was born on June 15, 1925, in Forrest City, Arkansas. She was the daughter and only child of John Wesley and Carrie Evlyn Cook Snyder.
MARRIAGE: Secretary Snyder's Daughter Weds In Glittering Capital Social Event
Trumans Among 2000 Guests
Washington. (UP) – Drucie Snyder, winsome 24-year-old daughter of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, was married Thursday (January 26, 1950) to Major John Ernest Horton, with Margaret Truman as maid of honor and the President and Mrs. Truman among the 2000 guests.
It was the first wedding of a Cabinet officer's daughter since the early 1930s, and by far the most glittering social event of the capital's current season.
Miss Snyder, wearing an Elizabethan-style bridal gown fashioned of 48 yards of creamy white brocade and satin, with a silk tulle veil falling to the hem of the train, was given away by her father as the President and first lady looked on and beamed.
The President's daughter, as maid of honor, wore a gown of misty green over turquoise taffeta and carried a contrasting bouquet of blue iris and lavender lilacs.
Craig Stevens of Hollywood was best man. His movie star wife, Alexis Smith, was among the guests who included many notables, among them Financier Bernard M. Baruch, President Charles E. Wilson of General Electric Co., Movie Producer Nathan J. Blumberg and Rubber Magnates Harvey Firestone, Jr., and John L. Collyer and their wives.
The ceremony took place in Washington Episcopal Cathedral.
Officiating was the Rev. Malcolm Marshall of Saint Margaret's Episcopal Church.
Drucie (Edith is her real name) was one of the most popular "bachelor girls" in the capital. Her bridegroom is 30 years old and an aide to the President. He must give up that post now because married men don't qualify.
An hour after the 5 p.m. ceremony, the young couple greeted more than 2000 guests in the exclusive Chevy Chase Country Club. Then they departed for a Florida honeymoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman, who occupied a front row pew alongside Mrs. Snyder, are old friends of both the bride and groom. Drucie has been almost a "second daughter" to the Trumans since she was nine.
Published in the El Paso Times (El Paso, Texas) January 27, 1950, page 13.
They had three children – one son and two daughters.
OBITUARY: CHARLESTON – Drucie Snyder Horton Dies of Stroke at 73
Drucie Snyder Horton, the daughter of Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder of the Truman Administration, has died from complications following a stroke. She was 73.
Mrs. Horton, wife of John E. Horton and a resident of Seabrook Island, spent most of her adult life in the Washington, D.C area, where she was Salvation Army Auxiliary president and Bradford Junior College Alumni president.
Published in The State (Columbia, South Carolina) May 1, 1999, page B2 (page 6).
OBITUARY: Drucie Horton, 73, Dies
Drucie Snyder Horton, 73, who had been active in volunteer, civic and cultural groups when she lived in Washington from 1984, died April 29 at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, after a stroke. She lived in Seabrook, South Carolina.
She was a daughter of John W. Snyder, who served as secretary of the treasury during the Truman administration.
During her Washington years, Mrs. Horton had been active in the Junior League, served as president of a Salvation Army auxiliary and was a trustee of the primary Day School. She also did volunteer work for Sidwell Friends, Holton Arms and St Stephens's schools in the Washington area.
She was a founding member of the Hoe and Hope Garden Club and had belonged to the Columbia Country Club.
Mrs. Horton, who was born in Arkansas, was a 1947 theater graduate of George Washington University. In 1950, she married John Horton in a Washington wedding attended by then President Harry S. Truman, his wife Bess Truman with their daughter, Margaret, serving as maid of honor.
Mrs. Horton served as maid of honor to Margaret Truman at the christening and commissioning of the battleship Missouri in 1944 and as matron of honor in the 1986 recommissioning of the "Mighty Mo." In 1998, she substituted for Margaret Truman at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Harry S. Truman.
In addition to her husband, of Seabrook, survivors include a son and two daughters, and two grandchildren.
Amended from the original obituary published in the Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) May 4, 1999. Names of the living redacted.
MARRIAGE: Secretary Snyder's Daughter Weds In Glittering Capital Social Event
Trumans Among 2000 Guests
Washington. (UP) – Drucie Snyder, winsome 24-year-old daughter of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, was married Thursday (January 26, 1950) to Major John Ernest Horton, with Margaret Truman as maid of honor and the President and Mrs. Truman among the 2000 guests.
It was the first wedding of a Cabinet officer's daughter since the early 1930s, and by far the most glittering social event of the capital's current season.
Miss Snyder, wearing an Elizabethan-style bridal gown fashioned of 48 yards of creamy white brocade and satin, with a silk tulle veil falling to the hem of the train, was given away by her father as the President and first lady looked on and beamed.
The President's daughter, as maid of honor, wore a gown of misty green over turquoise taffeta and carried a contrasting bouquet of blue iris and lavender lilacs.
Craig Stevens of Hollywood was best man. His movie star wife, Alexis Smith, was among the guests who included many notables, among them Financier Bernard M. Baruch, President Charles E. Wilson of General Electric Co., Movie Producer Nathan J. Blumberg and Rubber Magnates Harvey Firestone, Jr., and John L. Collyer and their wives.
The ceremony took place in Washington Episcopal Cathedral.
Officiating was the Rev. Malcolm Marshall of Saint Margaret's Episcopal Church.
Drucie (Edith is her real name) was one of the most popular "bachelor girls" in the capital. Her bridegroom is 30 years old and an aide to the President. He must give up that post now because married men don't qualify.
An hour after the 5 p.m. ceremony, the young couple greeted more than 2000 guests in the exclusive Chevy Chase Country Club. Then they departed for a Florida honeymoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman, who occupied a front row pew alongside Mrs. Snyder, are old friends of both the bride and groom. Drucie has been almost a "second daughter" to the Trumans since she was nine.
Published in the El Paso Times (El Paso, Texas) January 27, 1950, page 13.
They had three children – one son and two daughters.
OBITUARY: CHARLESTON – Drucie Snyder Horton Dies of Stroke at 73
Drucie Snyder Horton, the daughter of Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder of the Truman Administration, has died from complications following a stroke. She was 73.
Mrs. Horton, wife of John E. Horton and a resident of Seabrook Island, spent most of her adult life in the Washington, D.C area, where she was Salvation Army Auxiliary president and Bradford Junior College Alumni president.
Published in The State (Columbia, South Carolina) May 1, 1999, page B2 (page 6).
OBITUARY: Drucie Horton, 73, Dies
Drucie Snyder Horton, 73, who had been active in volunteer, civic and cultural groups when she lived in Washington from 1984, died April 29 at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, after a stroke. She lived in Seabrook, South Carolina.
She was a daughter of John W. Snyder, who served as secretary of the treasury during the Truman administration.
During her Washington years, Mrs. Horton had been active in the Junior League, served as president of a Salvation Army auxiliary and was a trustee of the primary Day School. She also did volunteer work for Sidwell Friends, Holton Arms and St Stephens's schools in the Washington area.
She was a founding member of the Hoe and Hope Garden Club and had belonged to the Columbia Country Club.
Mrs. Horton, who was born in Arkansas, was a 1947 theater graduate of George Washington University. In 1950, she married John Horton in a Washington wedding attended by then President Harry S. Truman, his wife Bess Truman with their daughter, Margaret, serving as maid of honor.
Mrs. Horton served as maid of honor to Margaret Truman at the christening and commissioning of the battleship Missouri in 1944 and as matron of honor in the 1986 recommissioning of the "Mighty Mo." In 1998, she substituted for Margaret Truman at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Harry S. Truman.
In addition to her husband, of Seabrook, survivors include a son and two daughters, and two grandchildren.
Amended from the original obituary published in the Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) May 4, 1999. Names of the living redacted.
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