RIVER WORKER DROWNS, SUNDAY

Harmon Snyder, 34 year old river worker, drowned Sunday when he fell from a barge into the Missouri river near the Blair bridge.

Snyder was assisting in covering a barge load of dirt with a canvas, and a sudden gust of wind snapped the canvas and threw him off the barge. As yet the body has not been found, although every effort has been made to do so.

Snyder and his family, consisting of a wife and two small children, a son and a daughter, have been living in a trailer at the B Line cabin camp. They were former Tekamah residents.

#2-29 May, 1941 - The Enterprise - Harmon Snyder

DROWNING VICTIM FOUND NEAR IOWA SUNDAY

Harmon Snyder, River Foreman, Found Near Place of Drowning

The body of Harmon Snyder, who was drowned last week, was found Sunday morning at about 9:30 o’clock near the Michaelsen Bend on the Iowa side of the river.

When the body was found, a call was immediately made for Sheriff McDonald. McDonald, having been away from his office for several days (rumor has it in Minnesota on a fishing trip), the call was answered by Deputy Olson, who with Assistance, rescued the body.

The body was taken in charge by J. E. Campbell, mortician, and interment was made the same day in the Tekamah cemetery.

Snyder was in the employ of a river contracting firm. He was assisting in covering a barge load of dirt with a canvas when a heavy gust of wind threw him into the river.

He leaves a wife an two small children.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~