In Memory Of
Mary A. Schneider
Mary A. Schneider
OBITUARY:
MARY A. SCHNEIDER
Mary A. Schneider (Senner), 63, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 in San Diego, CA after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease and cancer.
She was born Jan. 3, 1944, to Harold E. and Sarah (Meadows) Senner in Concordia, Ks.
Mary was valedictorian of her 1961 Seaman High School class. She earned a Bachelor of Bus. Adm. from Washburn U. in Topeka, graduating summa cum laude and Master of Science from Kansas State U., where she was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, national honor fraternity. She also earned a law degree from Washburn School of Law in Topeka, Kansas graduating at the top of her class in 1970, and was the first woman to serve as editor of the law journal.
Mary taught briefly at Washburn U. and practiced law in Great Bend, KS before joining the office of the U. S. Attorney in Kansas City, MO. Following her marriage to Robert B. Schneider on Jan. 19, 1974 and the subsequent birth of their two sons, Mary chose in 1976 to stay home with their children. After living in Charlotte, N. C. from 1980-1982, the family returned to Kansas City and Mary became a law clerk for Judge D. Brook Bartlett before rejoining the U.S. Attorney's office in Kansas City as an Assistant U. S. District Attorney in 1983, where she served as chief of the Criminal Division for several years. In 1988, the family moved to San Diego, CA where Mary was appointed an Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District Of California and was serving in the Appellate Division of that office at the time of her retirement in 1999. She was a member of the Kansas, Missouri and California bars.
Surviving her are her husband Retired Judge Robert B. Schneider of the home in San Diego, and two sons: Scott S. Schneider and his wife Michele of San Diego and Bradley R. Schneider of Los Angeles, CA; Mary's mother Sarah M. Senner and sister S. Jane Wise and her husband Urban, all of St. Joseph, MO; and several nieces and nephews.
Mary's father Harold E. Senner preceded her in death in Nov. 2003.
Graveside services will be at 1:00 p.m., Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 at Penwell-Gabel Cemetery, 3616 SW Sixth, Topeka, KS. To leave a special message for the family online, visit www.PenwellGabel.com.
MARY A. SCHNEIDER
Mary A. Schneider (Senner), 63, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 in San Diego, CA after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease and cancer.
She was born Jan. 3, 1944, to Harold E. and Sarah (Meadows) Senner in Concordia, Ks.
Mary was valedictorian of her 1961 Seaman High School class. She earned a Bachelor of Bus. Adm. from Washburn U. in Topeka, graduating summa cum laude and Master of Science from Kansas State U., where she was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, national honor fraternity. She also earned a law degree from Washburn School of Law in Topeka, Kansas graduating at the top of her class in 1970, and was the first woman to serve as editor of the law journal.
Mary taught briefly at Washburn U. and practiced law in Great Bend, KS before joining the office of the U. S. Attorney in Kansas City, MO. Following her marriage to Robert B. Schneider on Jan. 19, 1974 and the subsequent birth of their two sons, Mary chose in 1976 to stay home with their children. After living in Charlotte, N. C. from 1980-1982, the family returned to Kansas City and Mary became a law clerk for Judge D. Brook Bartlett before rejoining the U.S. Attorney's office in Kansas City as an Assistant U. S. District Attorney in 1983, where she served as chief of the Criminal Division for several years. In 1988, the family moved to San Diego, CA where Mary was appointed an Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District Of California and was serving in the Appellate Division of that office at the time of her retirement in 1999. She was a member of the Kansas, Missouri and California bars.
Surviving her are her husband Retired Judge Robert B. Schneider of the home in San Diego, and two sons: Scott S. Schneider and his wife Michele of San Diego and Bradley R. Schneider of Los Angeles, CA; Mary's mother Sarah M. Senner and sister S. Jane Wise and her husband Urban, all of St. Joseph, MO; and several nieces and nephews.
Mary's father Harold E. Senner preceded her in death in Nov. 2003.
Graveside services will be at 1:00 p.m., Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 at Penwell-Gabel Cemetery, 3616 SW Sixth, Topeka, KS. To leave a special message for the family online, visit www.PenwellGabel.com.
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Friday, February 2, 2007
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