Reverend Ruel Pembroke Snider
October 12, 1894-October 25, 1962

 

 

Ruel Pembroke Snider

Served the Church, January 1925-Dec. 2, 1928,

Reverend Ruel P. Snider assumed his duties as minister in January of 1925. Ruel was born October 12, 1894, in Cherry Grove,Washington County, Oregon, to Asa B. and Mary Elizabeth Snider (picture of Mary below). Asa was a minister. Ruel followed in the footsteps of his father and studied for the ministry. He attended the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA. He married Cora E. Powell February 1, 1921, in Cook County, Illinois.. She was born April 9, 1891, in Riverside, CA. They had daughters Joan (born Portland, Oregon, 1922) and Barbare (Tallmadge, Ohio, 1924). He had graduated from UC Berkeley in 1920. He emphasized work with students at the University of Texas. The Congregational Conference of Texas considered establishing a Bible Chair but never accomplished this goal. Mr. Snider left on Dec. 2, 1928 for a church at Hilo, Hawaii. In 1936, he resigned his position to return to the mainland. He later served Hope Congregational in Granville, N. D. and First Congregational Church in Pocatello, Idaho (there in 1941). Ruel died October 25, 1962 in Washington County, Oregon. He is buried at Fir Lawn Cemetery at Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon. His wife, Cora P. Snider Davisson, died July 22, 1987, and is buried in the same cemetery.