Shank, Verna Ruth Snyder (1893-1962)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1962 Oct 4 p. 8

Birth date: 1893 Feb 12

text of obituary:

MRS. VERNA RUTH SHANK

Verna Ruth Shank, daughter of Christian and Jessie Easter Snyder, was born near Roseland, Neb. on Feb. 12, 1893. She died at Salem General Hospital, Salem, Oregon, on August 13, 1962, age 69 years, six months, and three days. Because of poor health for a number of years, injuries received in a three-vehicle crash on August 10 resulted in death.

Her mother died at the time of her birth and she lived with the Henry Rutt family until she was nine years old when she went back to live with her father who had remarried.

In her youth she accepted Christ as her Savior and united with the Mennonite Church, in which here father was a deacon. At the time of her death she was a faithful member of the Hopewell Mennonite Church near Hubbard, Oregon.

On August 27, 1914, she was married to Frank M. Shank at Filer, Idaho. After living at Filer a short time they moved to La Junta, Colo. where they lived for six years, then a year at Dayton, Virginia before coming to Oregon in 1921. They lived later in Wyoming and in the Willamette Valley towns of Corvallis, Albany, Lebanon, and Canby before locating at their present farm at Hubbard in 1929. They established a poultry hatchery on their farm in 1932.

She was the mother of eight children, who with the widower, survive: Beulah, Nampa, Idaho; Ralph, Hubbard; Hazel (Mrs. LeRoy Hooley), Amelia, Virginia; Wilbur, Beaverton; Glenn, Woodburn; Lyle, Thelma, and Velma, all of Hubbard. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Walter V. Gingerich, Canby; two half-sisters and five half-brothers, Anna Snyder of Albany, Mrs. Omar Miller of Hubbard, Menno Snyder of Albany, Albert Snyder of Canby, John Snyder of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Paul Snyder of Canby, and Allen Snyder of Portland. Her mother, father, step-mother, brother, and two grandsons preceded her in death.

Funeral services were held at Hopewell Mennonite Church on August 18 with Marcus Lind of Salem, Ernest Garber of Sheridan and James Bucher of Portland officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.