Donald E. Priest

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Zimmerman Family Funeral Home, Rochester, for Donald E. PRIEST, 82, 304 Race St.

The Rev. Carl RICKS will officiate, and burial will be in the Burr Oak Cemetery. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Sunday and after 9 a.m. Monday.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or Trinity United Methodist Church.

Mr. Priest died at 11:45 p.m. Friday at Life Care Center, Rochester.

He was born may 30, 1909 in Rochester to Arnold and Minnie PONTIUS PRIEST, and had lived most of his life in the Rochester and Culver areas.

On Feb. 11, 1941 he married Jessie M. WHITING in South Bend. She died in 1985.

On April 19, 1986 he married Garnett HUPP SNIDER in Rochester. She survives.

Mr. Priest formerly owned and operated the Don-Marie Restuarant in Burr Oak. He was a member of the South Bend Masonic Lodge, the South Bend Scottish Rite and the Indiana FOP.

Surviving with his wife are two sons, Lester Lee SNIDER, South Bend, and Max. O. SNIDER, Palo Alto, Calif; two step-daughters, Mrs. Ronald (Shirley) ROCKHILL, Fortville, and Mrs. Richard (Mary Ann) SOBIERALSKI, South Bend; eleven step-grandchildren, and eleven step-great-grandchildren. A sister, Annabelle MILLS, and a brother, Robert [PRIEST], preceded in death.

Rochester Sentinel - Saturday, January 4, 1992