Betty Jane Snyder

Betty Jane Snyder

1937-2015

Betty Jane (formerly Blake) Snyder was born June 15, 1937 to George Leo McKee and Mary Julia (Middleton) McKee. Her mother died when she was three years old and she was taken in as a foster child by Truman and Geneva Carr of Maryville, Missouri, who raised her as their own. Geneva’s sister, Elsie and Oscar Horton took Betty’s younger brother, Frances McKee, and raised him as their own.

Betty married to Merle Blake from New Market, Iowa from 1954 and 1975 and during this time, they had five children and lived in southwest Iowa and northwest Missouri. Later in life, she was married to Homer Snyder and lived in Elwood, Kan. and the St. Joseph, Missouri area the rest of her life.

She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Mary McKee and her foster parents, Truman and Geneva Carr, a daughter, Leslie Jean Blake in 1958, brother, Frances McKee, foster brother, Wayne Carr and foster sister, Roma Carr. She is survived by her foster brothers and sisters, Manfred, Twila, Henry, Marjorie, Wilma, Barbara, Bill and Rick and her sons, Sid Blake (Marcy), Avoca, Iowa; George Blake (Cathy), Elwood, Kan.; Dan Blake (Jan), Shambaugh, Iowa and Scott Blake, King City, Missouri and step niece and nephew that she raised from infancy, David and Tara Hendricks, as foster children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Memorial Service: 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Harman-Rohde Funeral Home in Wathena, Kan.

Visitation 1 hour prior to service.

Inurnment at a later date at the Hopkins Missouri Cemetery.

Memorials: Parkinson Foundation.