Scottsbluff Star Hearld Scottsbluff, NE 25 May 2007 ALLIANCE - Paul Alexander "Duke" Snyder, 68, died Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, S.D. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 29, at St. John's United Lutheran Church with Pastor Bill Buschbom officiating. Burial with military rites will be in the Alliance Cemetery. Memorials may be sent in care of the family at 1228 Duncan Avenue, Alliance, NE 69301. Bates-Gould Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Paul was born Nov. 23, 1938 in Northport, Neb., the sixth child to Carl and Elizabeth (Ehrhardt) Snyder. He was baptized at the Lutheran Church in Sidney and attended school in Sidney and Hemingford. He served in the U.S. Army from 1962 to 1965. He worked for local farmers, Meter Smith Well Drilling and then in1968 and until currently owned and operated Snyder's Vacuum Sales and Service. Paul married Geraldine L. (Jeri) Taylor Aug. 19, 1965. To this union three children were born, Jimmy, Paula and Troy. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and a lifetime member of the Eagles Aerie #136. He enjoyed Stockcar Racing, Husker football, fishing, and farming and ranching. He is survived by his wife Geraldine (Jeri); children, Jimmy Snyder and Paula Snyder, and grandson, Anthony Snyder all of Alliance; his brother, Carl (Ilene) Snyder, Jr. of Dugan, Calif.; sisters, Eva Burney of Cutbank, Mont., and Linda Voss of Hale Center, Texas; sister-in-law, Barbara Snyder of Alliance and numerous nieces and nephews. His son Troy, his parents, two sisters, a brother and two brothers-in-law preceded him in death.