Louise P. Schneider

Louise P. Schneider, 89, of Valdosta, died on Monday, March 27, 2006, at the Brooks County Hospital in Quitman. after a lengthy illness. Born in Manhattan, New York on July 19, 1916, she was the daughter of the late Earl Haworth and Anna Justina Dienst Partington.

Lou was baptized and confirmed as an Episcopalian.. She attended the Susan Blow Kindergarten at 91 Madison Avenue, New York City. At the age of sixteen she graduated from high school and went to work in New York City for American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Lou met her future husband, Arthur Paul Schneider, at Indian Lake, near Denville, New Jersey. Her family, as well as Art’s had a summer house there. At the time of their wedding, she was twenty five, living with her father and stepmother at 31 Garrison Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey and working as secretary to Arthur W. Page, vice-president of public relations at AT&T. Lou worked in this position until her first child was born in 1947. She also attended classes at Hunter College, NYC. In 1954 she and Art moved their family to Dallas, Texas. Lou was a strong believer in education and after her children were grown she entered the University of Texas at Dallas and graduated with a BA in 1980. While in school she worked for Southern Methodist University and Dallas County, in a manpower training program. She retired in 1987. She was active in the Dallas League of Women Voters where she met many like-minded, longtime friends.

In their retirement years, Lou and Art enjoyed reading and attending the symphony and opera. They traveled the United States to see family members and to the Mediterranean, visiting Turkey and Greece, enjoying particularly the Parthenon in Athens. After her husband’s death in 1996, Lou moved to Valdosta to be near her daughter Jan and her family. She lived at Langdale Place until moving to the Presbyterian Home, Quitman, Georgia in 2001.

Lou is survived by her daughters and sons in law, Jan and Whit Fackler of Valdosta, Wendy and Joe Slaton of LaPlace, Alabama, a son and daughter in law, Art and Kim Schneider of Seattle, Washington, seven grandchildren, four great grandchildren, sisters, Edna Crawford of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Winnie Krasting of Vero Beach, Florida, numerous nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at a later date in New Jersey. Condolences may be conveyed online at www.mclanefuneralservices.com. Carson McLane Funeral Home is serving the family of Mrs. Schneider. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Tuskegee Main Street Development Foundation for the rehabilitation of the Johnston-Curtright House or to the Dallas League of Women Voters.




Funeral Home:
Carson McLane Funeral Home
2215 North Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA
US 31602