Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, July 26, 1994 TAG: 9407270026
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By BETTY HAYDEN and KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Their son had worked at Giles County mining companies for more than 10 years, first at APG Lime Corp. and then Eastern Ridge Lime Co.
He'd been a mine foreman at Eastern Ridge for about four years, leaving an above-ground job for the promotion. He worked hard to get his job, completing his GED last year and taking several job training classes.
"He liked working in the mines," said Emory Snider, who also worked in county limestone mines for many years. "There wasn't a better boy anywhere."
In his spare time, Barry Snider enjoyed hunting deer, fishing and going to parties, his father said.
Though he lived in Blacksburg, Barry Snider also found time to visit his family in Goldbond, which is near Stoney Creek.
"He grew up here on the creek, and he was liked by everybody," Vivian Snider said.
"There wasn't nothing he wouldn't do for his dad and me," she said. "To me, he wasn't like a stepson ... he was just like one of my own."
Barry Snider often ate dinner with the Sniders and spent time working on a car, she said. He also liked Vivian Snider's plants - she transplanted part of a "Dumb Cane" plant (dieffenbachia) for him last week.
His father said he always told Barry Snider that mining was dangerous work, but his son never worried about his safety.
"It's something that you read about," Vivian Snider said, but not something that she expected to happen to her family.
Barry Snider is also survived by his mother and two sons, Josh, 12, and Brandon, 6.
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