Cloanne Rae (Nelson) Snyder passed away on Saturday, May 27, 2017, at the Peabody Retirement Community. Cloanne was born on September 26, 1935 in Warsaw, Indiana.
She graduated from Mentone High School, class of 1953, and attended Manchester College. Cloanne was sophisticated and smart, a woman far ahead of her time and place. She had a green thumb, loved fashion magazines and shaggy dogs. Above all, she loved her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. A close second for her affection was collecting and selling antiques. As the “The Humble Collector” she worked decades traveling the country’s top antique show circuit. Driving her van to Nashville one week, and Manhattan the next. Her peers in the business considered her a tastemaker and an expert on early Americana and American Indian artifacts. When poor health forced her off the road and into retirement she filled her room at Peabody’s with her most favorite pieces from a half-century of collecting, and continued hunting for treasures in the Peabody gift shop.
Cloanne is survived by her daughter, Pamela Sinderbrand (Steve) of Margate, N.J., son, Shannon Snyder of Wabash, Indiana, her grandchildren Hanna Newcomer (Jeff), Sean Sinderbrand (Andi) and Leah Sinderband. Cloanne was blessed with two great-grandchildren, Scott Sinderbrand and Archer Newcomer. She is also survived by her sister Martha Lennane and brother Phil Nelson (Jeanie), and many loving nieces and nephews. Cloanne was predeceased by her parents Delford and Dorothy Nelson and her sister Janice Gawthrop.
A memorial service for Cloanne is being held on Wednesday May 31 at 11 a.m. in the Peabody Memorial Chapel, The Peabody Retirement Community, 400 West 7th Street, North Manchester, Indiana. Visitation, also in the Chapel, begins at 9:30.
Contributions in Clo’s memory can be made to the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church,113 West Main Street, North Manchester, Indiana 46962.
Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Bender Chapel, 207 W. Main St., North Manchester, Indiana.