Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameAlbert Ralph Sterling 
Birth29 Jan 1916, Dunmore, Lackawanna Co., Pennsylvania
Birth Memonear Scranton
Death29 Sep 1988, Milton-Freewater, Umatilla Co., Oregon
Burial3 Oct 1988, Fraser Cemetery, Fraser, Clearwater Co., Idaho
Burial MemoLot-5 Row -E
Alias/AKAAlbert Cipriano
FatherMichael J. Sterling (1894-1952)
MotherFrances M. Magnoni (1891-1946)
Spouses
Birth12 Jan 1906, Harrisville, Ritchie Co., West Virginia
Death11 Jan 1991, Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Oregon
BurialFraser Cemetery, Fraser, Clearwater Co., Idaho
Burial MemoLot-5 Row-E
FatherRev. Walter Icen Pritchard (1876-1953)
MotherJessie Lee Jordan (1885-1969)
Marriage10 Mar 1944, 1st Methodist Church, Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., Idaho
Marr Memo7:30 p.m. / Rev. P. Malsom Hammond
Death15 Jul 1997, Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio
Death Memod. Robinson Memorial Hospital
OccupationSales Workers, Other Commodities
FatherJames Thornton “Jim” Norman (1878-1960)
MotherBlanche Hella Jordan (1887-1965)
Marriage14 Dec 1935, Summit Co., Ohio
Notes for Albert Ralph Sterling
According to Al Sterling he would always state to his grandchildren his real name was ... “José Phillipe Alberto Raphael Pasqual Guana Miguel Sterling,” speaking very quickly with an Italian accent.
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Albert was raised in Jessop, Ohio and Akron, Ohio. His father changed his name to Sterling but Al's Grandfather retained the original Italian name. (Cipriotti) Cipriano?
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Lived in Akron, Summit, OH, during 1930 census -- with his father, Michael, and several boarders.
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Marriage witnessed by John W. Snyder & Jessie Lee Snyder
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Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 about Sterling, Albert Ralph
Name: Sterling, Albert Ralph
County: Umatilla
Death Date: 29 Sep 1988
Certificate: 88-18756
Age: 72
Birth Date: 29 Jan 1916
Spouse: Marie
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91Resided in Weippe, Idaho according to the 1940 US Census [24 years old]
[says residence on April 1, 1935 was Akron, Ohio]
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Albert was raised in Jessop, Ohio and Akron, Ohio. His father changed his name to Sterling but Al's Grandfather retained the original Italian name. (Cipriotti) Cipriano?
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Lived in Akron, Summit, OH, during 1930 census -- with his father, Michael, and several boarders.
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Marriage witnessed by John W. Snyder & Jessie Lee Snyder
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Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 about Sterling, Albert Ralph
Name: Sterling, Albert Ralph
County: Umatilla
Death Date: 29 Sep 1988
Certificate: 88-18756
Age: 72
Birth Date: 29 Jan 1916
Spouse: Marie
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91Resided in Weippe, Idaho according to the 1940 US Census [24 years old]
[says residence on April 1, 1935 was Akron, Ohio]
Notes for Marie Alice (Spouse 1)
grandchildren called her “Nana”
on birth certificate at Ritchie Co., Courthouse, it says “Mary Alice Pritchard”. . . later it was obviously changed in the original record book later to “Marie Alice Pritchard” [written in dark black ink]
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201Lived with Adonijah and Amanda Jordan in Weippe, Idaho (abt 1925). She states that Amanda was still alive then (Amanda Nelson Jordan died the next year (1926).
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91Resided in Weippe, Idaho according to the 1940 US Census
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Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 about Marie A Sterling
Name: Sterling, Marie A
County: Umatilla
Death Date: 11 Jan 1991
Certificate: 91-00945
Age: 84
Birth Date: 12 Jan 1906
Spouse: Albert
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Nana went to several High Schools ... beginning in Oakland, Maryland - then she went to Fairmont High School in Fairmont, WV - Elkins HIgh School, Elkins, West Virginia - then to Manchester, Iowa - Graduating from H.S. in Grand Tower, Illinois
Overall Schools: Wick, Iowa - Ainsworth, Nebraska [north of North Platte 100+ miles] -
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Nana said that she came out west to Idaho in 1924 from Lincoln, Nebraska via Spokane. She said her friends made a reservation for her at the YWCA in Spokane so that she could be safe when she arrived. She then took a train from Spokane to Orofino [relatives said not to get off in Greer because there would be no place to stay there. Nana said she changed trains in Arrow Junctuion and went from there to Orofino. She said several “indians” got on there. She said she was a little fearful of them - and a little fearful of everyone she met crossing the country.
From Orofino she got on a “stage” [actually a car called a stage] where a driver named Carl Peays. She was real leary of Karl at first but then set her mind to ease when he mentioned that he would take her by her Uncle Zan’s home on the way up to Weippe.
... came west to Idaho around 1924 [in Adonijah Jordan’s Home] ... [Uncle Zan Jordan picked her up at the railroad station in Orofino .. probably stayed with Zan for a bit ... but Orofino was a wild town in those days and she wanted to get away and soon moved to Adonijah’s home]
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Marie Sterling, 84, formerly of Fraser, Lewiston
PENDLETON, Ore. – Marie Alice Pritchard Snyder Sterling, 84, a Lewiston real estate manager, died of causes related to age at Pendleton, Ore. Friday.
She was born Jan. 12, 1906, to the Rev. Walter and Jessie Jordan Pritchard at Harrisburg, W. Va. She was raised in West Virginia and attended school there while following the ministry with her father.
After high school she moved to Iowa for a short time. As a young woman she lived at Lincoln, Neb., where she worked at a department Store. A short time later she took a train to Orofino and then a bus to the Fraser area to visit her mother and grandmother.
She married Milton C. Snyder in 1925 at Lewiston and they ranched and logged in the Fraser area. He died in 1943.
She and Albert R. Sterling were married May 10, 1944, at Lewiston. After their marriage they moved to Lewiston. He died Sept. 29, 1988.
She was a past queen of Malac Temple Daughters of the Nile and past worthy matron, Laurel Chapter Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include two sons, Milton L. Snyder of Federal Way Wash. And Melvin D. Snyder of Pendleton, Ore.; four sisters, Ann J. Pritchard of Everett, Wash., Clara Pritchard Bonner of Pierce, Idaho, Lee Pritchard Cochrell of Bellevue, Wash. and Agatha Pritchard Snyder of Spokane; and a brother, Quale Gordon Pritchard of Yakima, Wash.
Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday at Malcom’s Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel at Lewiston. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Malcom’s Brower-Wann. Burial will follow at 1 p.m. at Fraser Cemetery.
The family suggests memorials be sent to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, N. 820 Summit Blvd., Spokane, Wash. 99201
on birth certificate at Ritchie Co., Courthouse, it says “Mary Alice Pritchard”. . . later it was obviously changed in the original record book later to “Marie Alice Pritchard” [written in dark black ink]
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201Lived with Adonijah and Amanda Jordan in Weippe, Idaho (abt 1925). She states that Amanda was still alive then (Amanda Nelson Jordan died the next year (1926).
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91Resided in Weippe, Idaho according to the 1940 US Census
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Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 about Marie A Sterling
Name: Sterling, Marie A
County: Umatilla
Death Date: 11 Jan 1991
Certificate: 91-00945
Age: 84
Birth Date: 12 Jan 1906
Spouse: Albert
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Nana went to several High Schools ... beginning in Oakland, Maryland - then she went to Fairmont High School in Fairmont, WV - Elkins HIgh School, Elkins, West Virginia - then to Manchester, Iowa - Graduating from H.S. in Grand Tower, Illinois
Overall Schools: Wick, Iowa - Ainsworth, Nebraska [north of North Platte 100+ miles] -
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Nana said that she came out west to Idaho in 1924 from Lincoln, Nebraska via Spokane. She said her friends made a reservation for her at the YWCA in Spokane so that she could be safe when she arrived. She then took a train from Spokane to Orofino [relatives said not to get off in Greer because there would be no place to stay there. Nana said she changed trains in Arrow Junctuion and went from there to Orofino. She said several “indians” got on there. She said she was a little fearful of them - and a little fearful of everyone she met crossing the country.
From Orofino she got on a “stage” [actually a car called a stage] where a driver named Carl Peays. She was real leary of Karl at first but then set her mind to ease when he mentioned that he would take her by her Uncle Zan’s home on the way up to Weippe.
... came west to Idaho around 1924 [in Adonijah Jordan’s Home] ... [Uncle Zan Jordan picked her up at the railroad station in Orofino .. probably stayed with Zan for a bit ... but Orofino was a wild town in those days and she wanted to get away and soon moved to Adonijah’s home]
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Marie Sterling, 84, formerly of Fraser, Lewiston
PENDLETON, Ore. – Marie Alice Pritchard Snyder Sterling, 84, a Lewiston real estate manager, died of causes related to age at Pendleton, Ore. Friday.
She was born Jan. 12, 1906, to the Rev. Walter and Jessie Jordan Pritchard at Harrisburg, W. Va. She was raised in West Virginia and attended school there while following the ministry with her father.
After high school she moved to Iowa for a short time. As a young woman she lived at Lincoln, Neb., where she worked at a department Store. A short time later she took a train to Orofino and then a bus to the Fraser area to visit her mother and grandmother.
She married Milton C. Snyder in 1925 at Lewiston and they ranched and logged in the Fraser area. He died in 1943.
She and Albert R. Sterling were married May 10, 1944, at Lewiston. After their marriage they moved to Lewiston. He died Sept. 29, 1988.
She was a past queen of Malac Temple Daughters of the Nile and past worthy matron, Laurel Chapter Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include two sons, Milton L. Snyder of Federal Way Wash. And Melvin D. Snyder of Pendleton, Ore.; four sisters, Ann J. Pritchard of Everett, Wash., Clara Pritchard Bonner of Pierce, Idaho, Lee Pritchard Cochrell of Bellevue, Wash. and Agatha Pritchard Snyder of Spokane; and a brother, Quale Gordon Pritchard of Yakima, Wash.
Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday at Malcom’s Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel at Lewiston. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Malcom’s Brower-Wann. Burial will follow at 1 p.m. at Fraser Cemetery.
The family suggests memorials be sent to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, N. 820 Summit Blvd., Spokane, Wash. 99201
Notes for Agatha N. (Spouse 2)