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Alton Evening Telegraph 17 Oct 1923
MRS. V.C. SNIDER IS DEAD AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Death Comes Two Days After She is Stricken at Home of Joe Camp on Grafton Road
Mrs. Valaria Chappee Snider died at midnight Tuesday after an illness of two days with conjes tion of the stomach. She died at the home of Joe and Elmer Camp on the Grafton road, where s he has been housekeeper for nearly eight years. The seriousness of her illness was not know n to friends and the news of her death was a shock when received this morning. Early last su mmer with her sister, Mrs. J.E. Seagraves, and Joe and Elmer Camp, Mrs. Snider enjoyed a si x weeks automobile trip to Kansas.
Mrs. Snider was born at Newbern, where the Chapee family settled over ninety years ago. Sh e is survived by her aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Chappee of Elkhart, Kan., and by thre e brothers and seven sisters. Her death is the first break in the family of eleven children . For many years members of the Chappee family have lived in Alton.
Harry, Frank, and Warren Chappee of Alton are brothers of Mrs. Snider. The seven sisters ar e Mrs. Mary L. Besterfeldt of Elkhart, Kansas, Mrs. S.L. Mallett of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Kat herine Cutler of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. J.E. Seagraves and Mrs. H.E. Wood of Alton and Mrs . Effie McClellan of Coolridge, Kansas.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed awaiting word from relatives residing at distan t points.
Alton Evening Telegraph 18 Oct 1923 page 14
Mrs. Valeria Snider to be Buried Next Week
Mrs., Katherine Cutler of Long Beach, Calif., will be here to attend the funeral of her siste r, Mrs. Valeria Chappee Snider, who died a midnight Tuesday, The time to the funeral will no t be set until further word is received from Mrs. Cutler as to her arrival.
The body was taken to the home of Harry Chappee at No.9 Elm Street today and the funeral wil l be held from there early next week.
Alton Evening Telegraph 19 Oct 1923 page 14
Funeral of Mrs. Valeria
Chappee Snider Sunday
The funeral of Mrs. Valeria Chappee Snider, who died Tuesday night, will be held Sunday after noon at 2 o'clock from the home of her brother, Harry Chappee, 2 East Elm Street. Rev. H. D . Johnson of the Elm Street Presbyterian church will officiate.
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