SNYDER, Peter Etril Peter Etril Snyder, 73, died on Monday, August 28, 2017 at Grand River Health Centre, King St. W., Kitchener, where he was born January 28, 1944. He is survived by Marilyn (nee Snyder), his wife for 50 years, and by his brothers, twins, Donald A. (Katherine) and their daughter Cynthia (Kent Weber) and their son, Spencer; Douglas Noah (Dorene) and his daughters Julie (Russel Snyder-Penner) and their daughters Vanessa and Saskia; Jane (Karl Kessler) and their sons John and Thomas. Also survived by brother-in-law Donald Wayne Snyder and his fiancé Doreen Shantz and his son Jeff (Kelli Callaghan) and their sons Aidan and Darcy, and his daughter-in-law Lee Randall (Etienne Paquin) and her daughter Kate; brother-in-law Richard Snyder (Cathy) and sister-in-law June White (Michael) and her daughters Laura Johnson (Colin) and their son Joe; and Lindsay Taberner (Dave) and their sons Ben, and twins Noah and Brady. Predeceased by his parents, Etril and Alice Snyder, his mother and father-in-law Wayne and Lovina Snyder and sisters-in-law Doreen Snyder, Nancy Martin and Marilyn Snyder and son, our beloved nephew, Scott Snyder. At Pete's request, there will be no service. Visitation will be held at the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home , 171 King St. S., Waterloo, on Friday, September 1, 2017 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. We both loved flowers, so send away if that is your wish. Charities Pete supported whole-heartedly include KidsAbility and Mennonite Central Committee. Contributions may be made at the funeral home www.erbgood.com or by calling 519-745-8445. After study at Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Pete painted Waterloo County images for more than fifty years. He enjoyed his time at the easel and talking to his Old Order Mennonite friends and acquaintances, and was pleased to meet those who came to view his work and, especially, those who chose to hang it in their homes and businesses. Pete got especially energized while discussing commission paintings with the ordering executives. Some of those relationships went beyond strict business. He was overwhelmed by the community support he received and humbled by the community awards generously bestowed. It was a charmed life, exactly suited to this gregarious man, highlighted by his sense of humour and interest in this world of ours. Travel expanded his horizons and sometimes destinations appeared in his paintings. I feel fortunate to have been his partner in inventing a way of life. I will always miss his optimistic outlook which I have admired since I first laid eyes on him when I was thirteen. He will always be in my mind and heart. Grateful thanks to Dr. Janet MacEachern and the Grand River Cancer Centre. All whom Pete met there interested him and made him many new friends - Susan, Dorothy, Julie and Corinna especially, and many others. I expect you know who you are. You did your best to conquer his leukemia but a cure is still pending.
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Peter Etril Snyder, painter who embodied the spirit of Waterloo Region, dies at 73
by Jeff Hicks, THE RECORD
Peter Etril Snyder, a beloved local painter and world traveller, was a wonderfully complex brushwork of a man.
"There were a lot of levels to his character," his niece Cynthia Weber said on Tuesday, a day after her uncle died in hospital, at 73, following a lengthy battle with leukemia.
"He was excessively funny. He had a great personality. He had an innate ability to make anybody he was speaking to feel like the centre of his world."
And Snyder, who grew up in a dairy-operating Mennonite family just a few streets from the Waterloo library, made Waterloo Region the centre of his most celebrated paintings.
His iconic depictions of barn-raisings, hay gathering, apple picking and quilt-airing came to represent the Mennonite way of life. Snyder, who operated his own gallery for 40 years, was considered by his admirers to be a local version of Norman Rockwell.
Thousands of his works are chronicled on the www.snydergallery.com website managed by Weber. They also hang in homes, galleries, museums, churches and institutions locally and around the world. Prince Philip once watched him paint at the Royal Winter Fair.
Snyder, the youngest of three brothers including twins Don and Doug, preferred to be called a picture maker.
Snyder and wife Marilyn — he always affectionately referred to her as "my bride" — travelled the globe regularly. But the couple, who met at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and would have been married 51 years on Sunday, always returned home to the scenery that inspired his most celebrated works.
"He would always say, 'My heart, she is in Hawkesville,'" Weber explained.
"No matter where they travelled throughout the world, and no matter what beauty they saw, the beauty of the local area here always drew them back."
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Peter Etril Snyder, painter who embodied the spirit of Waterloo Region, dies at 73
by Jeff Hicks, THE RECORD
Peter Etril Snyder, a beloved local painter and world traveller, was a wonderfully complex brushwork of a man.
"There were a lot of levels to his character," his niece Cynthia Weber said on Tuesday, a day after her uncle died in hospital, at 73, following a lengthy battle with leukemia.
"He was excessively funny. He had a great personality. He had an innate ability to make anybody he was speaking to feel like the centre of his world."
And Snyder, who grew up in a dairy-operating Mennonite family just a few streets from the Waterloo library, made Waterloo Region the centre of his most celebrated paintings.
His iconic depictions of barn-raisings, hay gathering, apple picking and quilt-airing came to represent the Mennonite way of life. Snyder, who operated his own gallery for 40 years, was considered by his admirers to be a local version of Norman Rockwell.
Thousands of his works are chronicled on the www.snydergallery.com website managed by Weber. They also hang in homes, galleries, museums, churches and institutions locally and around the world. Prince Philip once watched him paint at the Royal Winter Fair.
Snyder, the youngest of three brothers including twins Don and Doug, preferred to be called a picture maker.
Snyder and wife Marilyn — he always affectionately referred to her as "my bride" — travelled the globe regularly. But the couple, who met at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and would have been married 51 years on Sunday, always returned home to the scenery that inspired his most celebrated works.
"He would always say, 'My heart, she is in Hawkesville,'" Weber explained.
"No matter where they travelled throughout the world, and no matter what beauty they saw, the beauty of the local area here always drew them back."
SNYDER, Peter Etril Peter Etril Snyder, 73, died on Monday, August 28, 2017 at Grand River Health Centre, King St. W., Kitchener, where he was born January 28, 1944. He is survived by Marilyn (nee Snyder), his wife for 50 years, and by his brothers, twins, Donald A. (Katherine) and their daughter Cynthia (Kent Weber) and their son, Spencer; Douglas Noah (Dorene) and his daughters Julie (Russel Snyder-Penner) and their daughters Vanessa and Saskia; Jane (Karl Kessler) and their sons John and Thomas. Also survived by brother-in-law Donald Wayne Snyder and his fiancé Doreen Shantz and his son Jeff (Kelli Callaghan) and their sons Aidan and Darcy, and his daughter-in-law Lee Randall (Etienne Paquin) and her daughter Kate; brother-in-law Richard Snyder (Cathy) and sister-in-law June White (Michael) and her daughters Laura Johnson (Colin) and their son Joe; and Lindsay Taberner (Dave) and their sons Ben, and twins Noah and Brady. Predeceased by his parents, Etril and Alice Snyder, his mother and father-in-law Wayne and Lovina Snyder and sisters-in-law Doreen Snyder, Nancy Martin and Marilyn Snyder and son, our beloved nephew, Scott Snyder. At Pete's request, there will be no service. Visitation will be held at the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home , 171 King St. S., Waterloo, on Friday, September 1, 2017 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. We both loved flowers, so send away if that is your wish. Charities Pete supported whole-heartedly include KidsAbility and Mennonite Central Committee. Contributions may be made at the funeral home www.erbgood.com or by calling 519-745-8445. After study at Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Pete painted Waterloo County images for more than fifty years. He enjoyed his time at the easel and talking to his Old Order Mennonite friends and acquaintances, and was pleased to meet those who came to view his work and, especially, those who chose to hang it in their homes and businesses. Pete got especially energized while discussing commission paintings with the ordering executives. Some of those relationships went beyond strict business. He was overwhelmed by the community support he received and humbled by the community awards generously bestowed. It was a charmed life, exactly suited to this gregarious man, highlighted by his sense of humour and interest in this world of ours. Travel expanded his horizons and sometimes destinations appeared in his paintings. I feel fortunate to have been his partner in inventing a way of life. I will always miss his optimistic outlook which I have admired since I first laid eyes on him when I was thirteen. He will always be in my mind and heart. Grateful thanks to Dr. Janet MacEachern and the Grand River Cancer Centre. All whom Pete met there interested him and made him many new friends - Susan, Dorothy, Julie and Corinna especially, and many others. I expect you know who you are. You did your best to conquer his leukemia but a cure is still pending.
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Peter Etril Snyder, painter who embodied the spirit of Waterloo Region, dies at 73
by Jeff Hicks, THE RECORD
Peter Etril Snyder, a beloved local painter and world traveller, was a wonderfully complex brushwork of a man.
"There were a lot of levels to his character," his niece Cynthia Weber said on Tuesday, a day after her uncle died in hospital, at 73, following a lengthy battle with leukemia.
"He was excessively funny. He had a great personality. He had an innate ability to make anybody he was speaking to feel like the centre of his world."
And Snyder, who grew up in a dairy-operating Mennonite family just a few streets from the Waterloo library, made Waterloo Region the centre of his most celebrated paintings.
His iconic depictions of barn-raisings, hay gathering, apple picking and quilt-airing came to represent the Mennonite way of life. Snyder, who operated his own gallery for 40 years, was considered by his admirers to be a local version of Norman Rockwell.
Thousands of his works are chronicled on the www.snydergallery.com website managed by Weber. They also hang in homes, galleries, museums, churches and institutions locally and around the world. Prince Philip once watched him paint at the Royal Winter Fair.
Snyder, the youngest of three brothers including twins Don and Doug, preferred to be called a picture maker.
Snyder and wife Marilyn — he always affectionately referred to her as "my bride" — travelled the globe regularly. But the couple, who met at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and would have been married 51 years on Sunday, always returned home to the scenery that inspired his most celebrated works.
"He would always say, 'My heart, she is in Hawkesville,'" Weber explained.
"No matter where they travelled throughout the world, and no matter what beauty they saw, the beauty of the local area here always drew them back."
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Peter Etril Snyder, painter who embodied the spirit of Waterloo Region, dies at 73
by Jeff Hicks, THE RECORD
Peter Etril Snyder, a beloved local painter and world traveller, was a wonderfully complex brushwork of a man.
"There were a lot of levels to his character," his niece Cynthia Weber said on Tuesday, a day after her uncle died in hospital, at 73, following a lengthy battle with leukemia.
"He was excessively funny. He had a great personality. He had an innate ability to make anybody he was speaking to feel like the centre of his world."
And Snyder, who grew up in a dairy-operating Mennonite family just a few streets from the Waterloo library, made Waterloo Region the centre of his most celebrated paintings.
His iconic depictions of barn-raisings, hay gathering, apple picking and quilt-airing came to represent the Mennonite way of life. Snyder, who operated his own gallery for 40 years, was considered by his admirers to be a local version of Norman Rockwell.
Thousands of his works are chronicled on the www.snydergallery.com website managed by Weber. They also hang in homes, galleries, museums, churches and institutions locally and around the world. Prince Philip once watched him paint at the Royal Winter Fair.
Snyder, the youngest of three brothers including twins Don and Doug, preferred to be called a picture maker.
Snyder and wife Marilyn — he always affectionately referred to her as "my bride" — travelled the globe regularly. But the couple, who met at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and would have been married 51 years on Sunday, always returned home to the scenery that inspired his most celebrated works.
"He would always say, 'My heart, she is in Hawkesville,'" Weber explained.
"No matter where they travelled throughout the world, and no matter what beauty they saw, the beauty of the local area here always drew them back."
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