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Mildred Inez Hammack Snider

3 Dec 1920 – 10 Jul 2022

Birth3 Dec 1920
Death10 Jul 2022
CemeteryOlton Cemetery
Olton , Lamb County , Texas , USA
Added byDon Henderson on 13 Jul 2022
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206380859

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Mildred Inez (Hammack) Snider, of Amarillo and formerly of Olton, passed from this world, Sunday, July 10, 2022, at the ripe old age of 101 and a 1/2 years old. Graveside services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13, 2022, at Olton Cemetery with Brother Phillip Hamilton officiating and under the care of Ramage Funeral Directors. Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13, at Ramage Funeral Directors in Olton. Born to Birk and Flora (Markham) Hammack, in Ringgold, Texas, on December 3, 1920, Mildred grew up and was educated in Delhi, Oklahoma. It was in Delhi, Oklahoma that Mildred married Jack Snider on July 19, 1941. They lived in Erick, Oklahoma and Amarillo before moving to Olton in 1956 to farm. She was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church in Olton where she taught Sunday School and training union for over 30 years. She was a member of the Family Motor Coach Association, Extension Homemakers, the County Council, the Garden Club, Senior Citizens, and the Sparkling Red Hatters. She moved to Winwood Village in Amarillo from Olton in 2006. Mildred was a talented seamstress and crocheter and had crocheted over 800 hats for City Church in Amarillo. Mildred was preceded in death by her husband, Jack Snider, in 1987 and four brothers, L.B. Hammack, J.L. Hammack, Robert Hammack, and R.E. Hammack. Survivors include her daughter, Phyllis Handley and husband Don of Amarillo, her granddaughter, Jena Handley Mitchell and husband Kevin of Fort Worth, and one great-grandson, Casey Mitchell. A wonderful article was written about Mildred in the Amarillo Globe News. Beilue: From building WWII bombs to crocheting hats, it's all in a day's work JON MARK BEILUE The hands that once helped assemble 250-pound bombs at Pantex Plant during World War II do something all together different 70 years later. The hands that pulled cotton, drove a tractor, drove a grain truck and then put a meal on the table as a farmer's wife are still busy. Mildred Snider turned 96 Saturday, and it's not so much the birthday gifts she might receive, but the gifts she's about to give. It's taken her hands about a year to finish, but these things take time. "I just enjoy helping other people," she said, "doing things for other people." It has taken her nearly a year to almost double what she's done the previous six years. But this week, she's ready to deliver 130 stocking caps for children at Citychurch. Of course, she didn't buy them, but crocheted them, one at a time beginning shortly after last Christmas. Time, generosity and skill she has, but money not so much. "I can't sit and not do anything," Mildred said. "I got to have something to do. People give me their yarn and I don't have to buy it. If I had to buy it all, I couldn't do it." Mildred is almost blind. A damaged retina limited her sight in one eye. This summer, along about wool cap No. 60, she had an eye stroke to her good eye a condition where blood flow either becomes blocked or reduced to the tissues of the front part of the optic nerve. "But I don't let it bother me," she said. Mildred has a magnifying glass to read, and that gets her through a lot. Just watching television is a challenge. But she's done something long before TV, and that's with a needle and thread. Snider's mother taught her to sew when she was a teenager in the mid-1930s. She later made clothes for women in her spare time. Once she made a coat for husband Jack, who made sure everyone knew it wasn't store-bought. "He was real proud of it," she said. "I made a tag on it that said, 'Made Especially For You By Mildred Snider.' He used to love to pull that tag out and show everybody." Mildred and Jack moved from Amarillo to Olton, west of Plainview, when he and his brother, J.L., rented a section of land to grow cotton, sorghum, soybeans and sunflowers. Jack died in 1987, and Mildred moved to Amarillo 10 years ago to be closer to her only child, Phyllis, and son-in-law, Don. Not long after arriving back in Amarillo after 50 years, Mildred had a fall. A woman who was helping her recover told her about Citychurch, what it did, how it reached out to the poverty-stricken of Amarillo. "The one thing we always have is our Christmas boxes," said Diana Lane, co-founder of Citychurch. "We have about 500 boxes, but there's probably 10 times that many kids who need them." When Mildred learned some kind of winter warmth for children ages 3 to 13 was part of the Christmas box, she was a woman on a mission in combining a lifelong skill with desire to help. Playing 42 or Chinese Checkers in the clubhouse of her retirement village is a diversion. This was more. On a good day, Mildred can crochet about three stocking caps. One can be done in four hours. "That's without any interruptions, without someone coming over and wanting me to do something," she said. And friends frequently do. As Phyllis said, "There's nothing wrong with her mind - or her mouth." Mildred, is that true? "Well, I say what I think, yes, I do," she said. "But, let me tell you, she does too." Ladies, please. The important thing is Mildred's gesture speaks louder than any words. This year, donations of yarn allowed her to double her caps. "It just thrills me to death when people give me yarn," she said. Mildred is even able to provide Texas Oncology with about 10 different caps for those women who have lost hair from chemotherapy. But it's the 130 stocking caps that have been at the center of Mildred's heart. "That's quite amazing," Lane said. "It shows everybody can do something to help. She is determined to find something she can do. She still wants to be of help to someone else. I really think that's cool." It's just all in a day's work - even at 96. Jon Mark Beilue is an AGN Media columnist. He can be reached at [email protected] or 806-345-3318. Twitter: @jonmarkbeilue. https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/local/2016/12/03/beilue-building-wwii-bombs-crocheting-hats-its-all-days-work/13068409007/

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