James Albert Snyder, Jr. and Mary Jane Downey

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Husband James Albert Snyder, Jr. ¹

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         Father: James Albert Snyder (1888-1960) 1
         Mother: Mabel Kingsley Smith (1892-1982) 1

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       Marriage: 6 Dec 1945 1

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Wife Mary Jane Downey ¹

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         Father: Claude Arlington Downey (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Nina B. [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Carol Lynn Snyder ¹

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2 M James Albert Snyder III ¹

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3 F Janet Louise Snyder ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James Albert Snyder, Jr.

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Unk newspaper,
Franklin Pilot Rescued From Wrecked Plane
Two Slippery Rock men were credited today with sav­ing the life of Franklin Pilot James A. Snyder Jr., 39, whose five passenger Stinson crashed in a blinding snow storm a few miles south of Harrisville in a heavily wooded
area Thursday night.
Snyder, returning alone from a Sylvania payroll delivery at York, suffered severe lacerations of the face and head, cuts on the right hand and other undetermined in­juries in the crash.
He was rushed to Grove City's Bashline Rosman Hospital by James and John Slocum, the men who found him strapped in his demolished plane a few hundred yards from a dirt road near the rural community of Keisters in Butler County.
The Slocums said they heard a low flying plane and saw it go down in a heavily wooded area about a mile east of Route 8. They raced to the area and were directed to the wrecked plane by Snyder's calls for help. The crash occurred at 8:50 p. m., ac­cording to Butler State Police.
The veteran pilot left Chess Lamberton Airport at 12:45 p. m., heading for Syracuse, N. Y. where he picked up the payroll for the Sylvania plant in York. He made the delivery and headed back to­ward the Franklin field in the late afternoon. He was operating a single engine 1939 Stinson SR 10 owned by the McKinney Flying Service.
He said he ran into a ''terrific snow storm" near Butler and was preparing to turn back to the field in that city when the mishap occurred. He said he attempted to increase his air speed and found he couldn't raise the plane's altitude.
"It just kept coming down," the injured pilot said, "and I saw the tree tops coming at me."
Apparently the trees cushioned the impact of the crash and saved the pilot from more serious in­jury. He said he began calling for help and when he thought he heard voices he remained quiet for a few moments and then an­swered the men who were trying to locate him.
Snyder said he had nearly a full tank of gasoline and feared he would to trapped if the plane burst into flames. However, t h e plane did not take fire.
He was able to walk the several hundred yards down a hill to the Slocum car which was parked on the dirt road near the scene of the crash.
He complained of an extremely sore leg and hip and X-ray exam­inations were being made today to determine the extent of his injuries. In addition to the lacera­tions on his face and right hand, he sustained a badly bruised left hand.
His wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Snyder, of 1128 Liberty Street, rushed to his bedside in the Grove City Hos­pital late Thursday night. Ar­rangements were being made to­day to transfer him to the Mer­cer Cottage Hospital.
Snyder, the father of two chil­dren, resides at 832 Liberty Street. He is employed by the Mc­Kinney Flying Service in Frank­lin and also by the Chicago Pneu­matic Tool Co.
He was employed with the Brewster Aviation Co. in Newark, N. J. prior to World War II and enlisted in the Air Force in Sep­tember of 1941. He was stationed for a time at Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Tex.

1 Helen M. Snyder, Snyder - Bump History (Franklin, PA: Self-published, 1983), Pg 20.