Growing with growers since 1946
  • September 2015 Issue
  • Story by Good Fruit Grower
  • Robert Snyder 1921–2015

    Robert Snyder, a former partner at C&O Nursery in Wenatchee, Washington, died June 19 at the age of 94. Snyder grew up in Wenatchee. He became a U.S. Air Force cadet and graduated from the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in California. He later earned a degree in business administration from the University of Washington, then worked for Sherwin Williams Ag Business for several years in Washington and Idaho. When the company went out of business, he moved to Wenatchee to work for H.R. Spinner Company as a salesman covering the Columbia Basin. In 1953, Snyder and his brothers John […]

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