Harold Homer Snyder was born in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, the oldest child of Omer and Edith (Burt) Snyder. In his early teens, the family moved to Delta County, Michigan, where Harold worked in the lumbering industry until the family moved to Lapeer, Lapeer County, where Harold finished high school. He matriculated for a time at Flint Junior College, but ran out of money and moved to Chicago, looking for work. There, he met Gertrude Bischof who he married 6 Sep 1936 in Skokie, Illinois. They lived in the greater Chicago area for about eight years, during which time their first two children, a son (1937) and a daughter (1942) were born. In about 1942, Harold found work with the government at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The family lived in Dayton until the end of WW II, and then moved back to Illinois. While in Dayton, their third child, a daughter was born in 1947. Harold's professional life was as a Packaging Engineer, designing, and in later years, constructing packaging materials for shipping. He was the first to design a paper-board container for the packaging of fruit. A Type II diabetic in his later years, he died from the complications of a stroke.
Harold Homer Snyder was born in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, the oldest child of Omer and Edith (Burt) Snyder. In his early teens, the family moved to Delta County, Michigan, where Harold worked in the lumbering industry until the family moved to Lapeer, Lapeer County, where Harold finished high school. He matriculated for a time at Flint Junior College, but ran out of money and moved to Chicago, looking for work. There, he met Gertrude Bischof who he married 6 Sep 1936 in Skokie, Illinois. They lived in the greater Chicago area for about eight years, during which time their first two children, a son (1937) and a daughter (1942) were born. In about 1942, Harold found work with the government at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The family lived in Dayton until the end of WW II, and then moved back to Illinois. While in Dayton, their third child, a daughter was born in 1947. Harold's professional life was as a Packaging Engineer, designing, and in later years, constructing packaging materials for shipping. He was the first to design a paper-board container for the packaging of fruit. A Type II diabetic in his later years, he died from the complications of a stroke.
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