IN-N-OUT MATRIARCH SNYDER DIES AT AGE 86.Byline: Daily News Esther Snyder Esther Lavelle Snyder (née Johnson) (b. 1920 in Sorento, Illinois – d. August 4 2006 in Baldwin Park, California) founded In-N-Out Burger, with her husband Harry Snyder. , who with her husband, Harry, founded the popular In-N-Out Burger In-N-Out Burger is a privately owned and operated fast food restaurant chain in the Western United States. Founded in 1948 and headquartered in Irvine, California, In-N-Out Burger has since expanded to Arizona and Nevada, and has announced plans to build in southern Utah. chain and served as its president since 1999, died Friday in Baldwin Park Baldwin Park, city (1990 pop. 69,330), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, in the fertile San Gabriel valley; settled 1870, inc. 1956. Its industries include metal fabrication, printing, and plastics manufacturing. . She was 86. She was born Esther Johnson in 1920 in Illinois and graduated in 1947 from Seattle Pacific University External links
• • with a degree in zoology zoology, branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical significance animals held for prehistoric man. . She served as a surgical nurse in the WAVES during World War II. She met Harry Snyder in 1947, when she was working as a day manager at a Seattle restaurant, where he sold baked goods. They married the next year and moved to Baldwin Park, where they opened the first In-N-Out. Esther Snyder initially helped with the cooking and later took over the bookkeeping and paperwork for the expanding chain. The Snyders had two sons, who later helped run the family business. After Harry Snyder died in 1976, son Rich took over the company, with his older brother, Guy, serving as vice president. When Rich was killed in a plane crash in 1993, Guy Snyder became chairman. Esther Snyder continued as president after Guy died in 1999. In 1984, Esther and Rich Snyder founded the Child Abuse Foundation, which later became the In-N-Out Burger Foundation. She was also active in other philanthropic organizations. Private services are planned. Memorial contributions can be made to the In-N-Out Foundation, 13502 Hamburger Lane, Baldwin Park, CA 91706. |
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