Emily Snyder Reid

Emily Snyder Reid died March 18, at her home in Westsound. She was the first born of Ralph Snyder and Aimee Watters Snyder’s four children in Spokane on Oct. 7, 1919. She was raised on Hilltop Farm, a wheat ranch in Adams County.

She attended school in Washtucna for her first 12 years and graduated in 1938. She majored in botany at Whitman and was a Tri Delt. She continued her studies at Washington State in Pullman until 1942.

She had met Payton Reid while still in high school; he was the older brother of a schoolmate, who was living in Chicago. He was a long distance boyfriend when she accept...