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[[File:Snyder%20Elvin.JPG|300px|thumb|right|''Elvin Snyder, 1968. Mennonite Archives of Ontario photo.'']]     Elvin Snyder: missionary, was born 1 April 1900 near [[Breslau (Ontario, Canada)|Breslau]], [[Ontario (Canada)|Ontario]] to Ozias and Barbara Snyder. Elvin Snyder studied at Toronto Bible College (1925), [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (BA, 1927), and Southwest Texas State Teachers College (MA, 1952). He married Mary Adah Fretz in 1928 and, after her death in 1974, married Esther Brunk Fadner in 1978.

Snyder served in a wide variety of mission projects, including those in [[Toronto (Ontario, Canada)|Toronto]] (1922-25); Canton, Ohio (1927-28); [[Trenque Lauquen Mennonite Church (Trenque Lauquen, Buenos Aires, Argentina)|Trenque Lauquen]], America, and [[Carlos Casares Mennonite Church (Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires, Argentina)|Carlos Casares,]] [[Argentina|Argentina]] (1928-47); Chicago (1947-49); Lost Creek, [[Kentucky (USA)|Kentucky]] (1949-50); Mathis, [[Texas (USA)|Texas]] (1950-53); [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] (1953-65): and Corpus Christi, Texas (1966-67). In his later years he taught in the Spanish department at [[Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)|Eastern Mennonite College]] (1971-73) and provided pastoral leadership to the Milwaukee Mennonite Church (1973-75). Snyder served variously as an [[Orphanages|orphanage]] director, language instructor, Bible institute director, editor and pastor. He died 6 December 1985.
= Bibliography =
Snyder, Elvin V. collection, Archives of the Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA).

"Snyder, Elvin Valores," <em class="gameo_bibliography">Who's Who in Texas Today. </em> Austin: Pemberton Press, 1967: 338.

"Elvin Valores Snyder" in <em class="gameo_bibliography">The Gospel Under the Southern Cross. </em>Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1943: 186-87.

<em class="gameo_bibliography">Gospel Herald</em> (31 December 1985): 928.
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