{"id":126477,"date":"2020-01-03T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=126477"},"modified":"2020-01-05T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:04:13","slug":"ronald-a-snyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/01\/03\/ronald-a-snyder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald A. Snyder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ronald A. Snyder, 69, of Van Wert, passed away Thursday, January 2, 2020, during brief hospice inpatient care at Lima Memorial Hospital.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron was born February 22, 1950, in Marion, the son of Eldon (Sam) Snyder, who preceded him in death, and Elizabeth (Betty) Snyder who survives in Van Wert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8711\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron was an athlete and a scholar. He graduated Indian Lake High School in Lewistown in 1968 and went on to Bowling Green State University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and math and receiving the Undergraduate Award in analytical chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron was a physical chemistry research doctoral fellow at Purdue University Graduate School, West Lafayette, Indiana. He was a U.S. Navy veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his mother, Betty, he is survived by two sisters, Carmen (Jim) Houser of Russells Point and Rita of Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There will be no viewing or services at this time. A commemorative service will be announced at a later date.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert is handling arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\/\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald A. Snyder, 69, of Van Wert, passed away Thursday, January 2, 2020, during brief hospice inpatient care at Lima Memorial Hospital.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ron was born February 22, 1950, in Marion, the son of Eldon (Sam) Snyder, who preceded him in death, and Elizabeth (Betty) Snyder who survives in Van Wert.&nbsp; Ron was an athlete and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 04:07:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}