Harold Forest Snow, who passed away at the age of 94, was born in Pine Point to Fred H. and Cora M. (Tarbox) Snow. He attended Blue Point schools, graduated from Thornton Academy in 1935 and from MIT in 1939 with a degree in chemistry. He worked as a chemist at DuPont in Buffalo, NY. In February, 1940, he married Marjorie L. Douglass. They were married 42 years until her sudden passing in 1982. In early 1941, they returned to Pine Point where he joined his father at the F.H. Snow Canning Company. Snow's operated three plants in New Jersey, a sardine cannery in South Gouldsboro as well as the Pine Point plant. Many people from the area were employed at Snow's. Harold was Snow's president and then a vice-president of the Borden Company in 1959 when the two merged. In the mid-1950's, when the Blue Point Congregational Church out-grew its small building, he was architect of the new Gothic church. Harold organized its planning, fundraising and building. He was its choir director and its organist on the renowned Austin organ for over 40 years. Upon retirement, he continued to enjoy gardening, reading, cooking for his whole family, telling stories of the past and traveling.
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Harold Forest Snow, who passed away at the age of 94, was born in Pine Point to Fred H. and Cora M. (Tarbox) Snow. He attended Blue Point schools, graduated from Thornton Academy in 1935 and from MIT in 1939 with a degree in chemistry. He worked as a chemist at DuPont in Buffalo, NY. In February, 1940, he married Marjorie L. Douglass. They were married 42 years until her sudden passing in 1982. In early 1941, they returned to Pine Point where he joined his father at the F.H. Snow Canning Company. Snow's operated three plants in New Jersey, a sardine cannery in South Gouldsboro as well as the Pine Point plant. Many people from the area were employed at Snow's. Harold was Snow's president and then a vice-president of the Borden Company in 1959 when the two merged. In the mid-1950's, when the Blue Point Congregational Church out-grew its small building, he was architect of the new Gothic church. Harold organized its planning, fundraising and building. He was its choir director and its organist on the renowned Austin organ for over 40 years. Upon retirement, he continued to enjoy gardening, reading, cooking for his whole family, telling stories of the past and traveling.
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