Lorraine Snider, champion Kingston bowler, dies
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Lorraine Snider, a local champion bowler and member of the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame, died on Tuesday after a brief illness.
She would have been 92 years old on Oct. 31.
Snider began her local bowling career in 1950 and was Kingston’s top female bowler throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
She competed in women’s leagues at five Kingston bowling alleys and was a perennial champion. Snider won numerous tournaments both locally and outside Kingston.
Snider won the Kingston Strikes and Spares Tournament four out of the first nine years it was held, and in 1967 she was named Kingston’s top female five-pin bowler.
She was inducted into the local sports hall of fame in 2000.
Predeceased by her husband, Harold Snider, she leaves behind three daughters and their spouses, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Her funeral will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Home at 435 Davis Dr.
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