On Dec. 1, 2007, Robert Groesbeck Snow died quietly in his home at the age of 97.
He died a man loved and respected by family and friends and by those he served for 35 years as a skilled ear, nose and throat specialist.He was a man who had learned how to get the most out of life, and even during the last decades of his life, he continued to enjoy the things he loved music, the arts, travel, learning new things, good food, and spending time with family members and good friends. He always appreciated the humor in life; until the last few days of his life he was still telling jokes. Robert G. Snow was born April 8, 1910 to Dr. Clarence Snow and Cornelia Groesbeck Snow in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married Leonora Cannon Stewart on Aug. 9, 1933 in the Salt Lake Temple. After her death in 1990, he married Susan Trell Thorup Ricord on Oct. 11, 2003. A year later, on Oct. 12, 2004, they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1931, he attended and was graduated from Harvard University's Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. in 1935. Dr. Robert G. Snow was an intern at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and had begun his medical practice in the Boston area when Pearl Harbor was bombed. In January 1942, he joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps and served for most of World War II in Australia and New Guinea until 1945. He was honorably discharged from the Army Reserves in 1953. In 1945, he rejoined his wife and son, Christopher, who had moved to Salt Lake City during the war, and began a medical practice there. In 1959, he joined the Salt Lake Clinic, which his father had helped found more than 50 years earlier; he practiced at the clinic until his retirement in 1980.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, Utah Medical Association, Salt Lake County Medical Society, and American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He also belonged to Timpanogos Club, a group of retired professionals that met monthly to discuss history and current affairs, and was the Alta Club's oldest living member at the time of his death. Dr. Snow actively supported the arts in Utah for decades as a subscriber and contributor to the Utah Symphony and Opera, Pioneer Memorial Theater and Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. He also traveled widely during his retirement and took many trips with his first and second wives to see new places and to visit his children, step-children, and grandchildren in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. He loved to spend time at his family's summer home in the Uinta Mountains, where he continued to do his own household repairs. During the last four years of his life, he found great joy and satisfaction in his participation in the LDS Church; he and his wife Susan Trell served together as Home Teachers in the 33rd Ward.
Dr. Snow is survived by his wife, Susan Trell; a daughter, Leonora S. Cross, of Bainbridge Island, WA; two sons, Christopher Snow, of Bainbridge Island, and Nicholas John Snow, of Falls Church, VA; three grandchildren, Anne Cross, and Amanda and Eric Snow; five stepchildren, Camie Madsen, Rory Ricord, Chan Ricord, Clint Ricord, Amara Gulsby, and 15 step grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held at the Salt Lake 33rd LDS Ward Chapel (453 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, UT) on Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 at 12:00 noon. There will be a viewing at Larkin Mortuary (260 E South Temple) from 6 to 8 p.m. the Thursday evening before the funeral and at the 33rd Ward one hour prior to the funeral.
Published in the Deseret News from 12/4/2007 - 12/5/2007.
He died a man loved and respected by family and friends and by those he served for 35 years as a skilled ear, nose and throat specialist.He was a man who had learned how to get the most out of life, and even during the last decades of his life, he continued to enjoy the things he loved music, the arts, travel, learning new things, good food, and spending time with family members and good friends. He always appreciated the humor in life; until the last few days of his life he was still telling jokes. Robert G. Snow was born April 8, 1910 to Dr. Clarence Snow and Cornelia Groesbeck Snow in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married Leonora Cannon Stewart on Aug. 9, 1933 in the Salt Lake Temple. After her death in 1990, he married Susan Trell Thorup Ricord on Oct. 11, 2003. A year later, on Oct. 12, 2004, they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1931, he attended and was graduated from Harvard University's Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. in 1935. Dr. Robert G. Snow was an intern at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and had begun his medical practice in the Boston area when Pearl Harbor was bombed. In January 1942, he joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps and served for most of World War II in Australia and New Guinea until 1945. He was honorably discharged from the Army Reserves in 1953. In 1945, he rejoined his wife and son, Christopher, who had moved to Salt Lake City during the war, and began a medical practice there. In 1959, he joined the Salt Lake Clinic, which his father had helped found more than 50 years earlier; he practiced at the clinic until his retirement in 1980.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, Utah Medical Association, Salt Lake County Medical Society, and American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He also belonged to Timpanogos Club, a group of retired professionals that met monthly to discuss history and current affairs, and was the Alta Club's oldest living member at the time of his death. Dr. Snow actively supported the arts in Utah for decades as a subscriber and contributor to the Utah Symphony and Opera, Pioneer Memorial Theater and Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. He also traveled widely during his retirement and took many trips with his first and second wives to see new places and to visit his children, step-children, and grandchildren in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. He loved to spend time at his family's summer home in the Uinta Mountains, where he continued to do his own household repairs. During the last four years of his life, he found great joy and satisfaction in his participation in the LDS Church; he and his wife Susan Trell served together as Home Teachers in the 33rd Ward.
Dr. Snow is survived by his wife, Susan Trell; a daughter, Leonora S. Cross, of Bainbridge Island, WA; two sons, Christopher Snow, of Bainbridge Island, and Nicholas John Snow, of Falls Church, VA; three grandchildren, Anne Cross, and Amanda and Eric Snow; five stepchildren, Camie Madsen, Rory Ricord, Chan Ricord, Clint Ricord, Amara Gulsby, and 15 step grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held at the Salt Lake 33rd LDS Ward Chapel (453 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, UT) on Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 at 12:00 noon. There will be a viewing at Larkin Mortuary (260 E South Temple) from 6 to 8 p.m. the Thursday evening before the funeral and at the 33rd Ward one hour prior to the funeral.
Published in the Deseret News from 12/4/2007 - 12/5/2007.
On Dec. 1, 2007, Robert Groesbeck Snow died quietly in his home at the age of 97.
He died a man loved and respected by family and friends and by those he served for 35 years as a skilled ear, nose and throat specialist.He was a man who had learned how to get the most out of life, and even during the last decades of his life, he continued to enjoy the things he loved music, the arts, travel, learning new things, good food, and spending time with family members and good friends. He always appreciated the humor in life; until the last few days of his life he was still telling jokes. Robert G. Snow was born April 8, 1910 to Dr. Clarence Snow and Cornelia Groesbeck Snow in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married Leonora Cannon Stewart on Aug. 9, 1933 in the Salt Lake Temple. After her death in 1990, he married Susan Trell Thorup Ricord on Oct. 11, 2003. A year later, on Oct. 12, 2004, they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1931, he attended and was graduated from Harvard University's Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. in 1935. Dr. Robert G. Snow was an intern at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and had begun his medical practice in the Boston area when Pearl Harbor was bombed. In January 1942, he joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps and served for most of World War II in Australia and New Guinea until 1945. He was honorably discharged from the Army Reserves in 1953. In 1945, he rejoined his wife and son, Christopher, who had moved to Salt Lake City during the war, and began a medical practice there. In 1959, he joined the Salt Lake Clinic, which his father had helped found more than 50 years earlier; he practiced at the clinic until his retirement in 1980.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, Utah Medical Association, Salt Lake County Medical Society, and American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He also belonged to Timpanogos Club, a group of retired professionals that met monthly to discuss history and current affairs, and was the Alta Club's oldest living member at the time of his death. Dr. Snow actively supported the arts in Utah for decades as a subscriber and contributor to the Utah Symphony and Opera, Pioneer Memorial Theater and Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. He also traveled widely during his retirement and took many trips with his first and second wives to see new places and to visit his children, step-children, and grandchildren in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. He loved to spend time at his family's summer home in the Uinta Mountains, where he continued to do his own household repairs. During the last four years of his life, he found great joy and satisfaction in his participation in the LDS Church; he and his wife Susan Trell served together as Home Teachers in the 33rd Ward.
Dr. Snow is survived by his wife, Susan Trell; a daughter, Leonora S. Cross, of Bainbridge Island, WA; two sons, Christopher Snow, of Bainbridge Island, and Nicholas John Snow, of Falls Church, VA; three grandchildren, Anne Cross, and Amanda and Eric Snow; five stepchildren, Camie Madsen, Rory Ricord, Chan Ricord, Clint Ricord, Amara Gulsby, and 15 step grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held at the Salt Lake 33rd LDS Ward Chapel (453 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, UT) on Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 at 12:00 noon. There will be a viewing at Larkin Mortuary (260 E South Temple) from 6 to 8 p.m. the Thursday evening before the funeral and at the 33rd Ward one hour prior to the funeral.
Published in the Deseret News from 12/4/2007 - 12/5/2007.
He died a man loved and respected by family and friends and by those he served for 35 years as a skilled ear, nose and throat specialist.He was a man who had learned how to get the most out of life, and even during the last decades of his life, he continued to enjoy the things he loved music, the arts, travel, learning new things, good food, and spending time with family members and good friends. He always appreciated the humor in life; until the last few days of his life he was still telling jokes. Robert G. Snow was born April 8, 1910 to Dr. Clarence Snow and Cornelia Groesbeck Snow in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married Leonora Cannon Stewart on Aug. 9, 1933 in the Salt Lake Temple. After her death in 1990, he married Susan Trell Thorup Ricord on Oct. 11, 2003. A year later, on Oct. 12, 2004, they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1931, he attended and was graduated from Harvard University's Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. in 1935. Dr. Robert G. Snow was an intern at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and had begun his medical practice in the Boston area when Pearl Harbor was bombed. In January 1942, he joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps and served for most of World War II in Australia and New Guinea until 1945. He was honorably discharged from the Army Reserves in 1953. In 1945, he rejoined his wife and son, Christopher, who had moved to Salt Lake City during the war, and began a medical practice there. In 1959, he joined the Salt Lake Clinic, which his father had helped found more than 50 years earlier; he practiced at the clinic until his retirement in 1980.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, Utah Medical Association, Salt Lake County Medical Society, and American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He also belonged to Timpanogos Club, a group of retired professionals that met monthly to discuss history and current affairs, and was the Alta Club's oldest living member at the time of his death. Dr. Snow actively supported the arts in Utah for decades as a subscriber and contributor to the Utah Symphony and Opera, Pioneer Memorial Theater and Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. He also traveled widely during his retirement and took many trips with his first and second wives to see new places and to visit his children, step-children, and grandchildren in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. He loved to spend time at his family's summer home in the Uinta Mountains, where he continued to do his own household repairs. During the last four years of his life, he found great joy and satisfaction in his participation in the LDS Church; he and his wife Susan Trell served together as Home Teachers in the 33rd Ward.
Dr. Snow is survived by his wife, Susan Trell; a daughter, Leonora S. Cross, of Bainbridge Island, WA; two sons, Christopher Snow, of Bainbridge Island, and Nicholas John Snow, of Falls Church, VA; three grandchildren, Anne Cross, and Amanda and Eric Snow; five stepchildren, Camie Madsen, Rory Ricord, Chan Ricord, Clint Ricord, Amara Gulsby, and 15 step grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held at the Salt Lake 33rd LDS Ward Chapel (453 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, UT) on Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 at 12:00 noon. There will be a viewing at Larkin Mortuary (260 E South Temple) from 6 to 8 p.m. the Thursday evening before the funeral and at the 33rd Ward one hour prior to the funeral.
Published in the Deseret News from 12/4/2007 - 12/5/2007.
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