Obituaries

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Bonnie Hale SnapeHomemaker, Church Member

Bonnie Hale Snape, a homemaker who was active in the Chevy Chase United Methodist Church, died Jan. 2 of Alzheimer's disease at Asbury Methodist Village's Wilson Health Care Center in Gaithersburg, three days before her 84th birthday. She lived in Chevy Chase.

She was born in Van Wert, Ohio, and served as a Navy Wave. She graduated from Whittier College in California in 1950 and taught first grade in the Montgomery County school system for five years.

She met her husband during that time, and they settled in Chevy Chase after they wed. She then dedicated her life to her family. She taught Sunday school and preschool at her church and volunteered in numerous other capacities.

She later worked in the offices of the Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home in the District for a few years in the 1980s.

Survivors include her husband of 55 years, William H. Snape Jr. of Chevy Chase; five children; Katherine Kelly of Wilmington, Del., William H. Snape III of Tacoma, Wash., Margaret Jordan of Uniondale, Pa., Anne Snape of Breckenridge, Minn., and Richard H. Snape of Silver Spring; a sister; and 11 grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Lawrence E. PlantMachinist, Optics Specialist

Lawrence E. Plant, 85, a machinist and optics specialist, died Dec. 31 at Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville. He had Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

He worked for 30 years as an optics specialist and machinist for the old Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak before retiring in 1977. He then worked 15 years as a machinist for R&R Lighting of Silver Spring.

Mr. Plant was born in Washington and graduated from McKinley Technical High School. He served in the Navy during World War II, in the European and the Pacific theaters, and during the Korean War.

He returned to the Washington area and lived in Silver Spring for 57 years. He was a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus and a member of the Holy Name Society at St. Catherine Laboure Catholic Church in Silver Spring.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Rose M. Plant of Silver Spring; six children, Roseann Ryba and Lawrence W. Plant, both of Annapolis, Rita M. Gerlach and Edith D. Seligson, both of Frederick, Mary Elizabeth Griner of Rockville and Michael E. Plant of Charlotte; a sister, Dorothy Buckovac of Luray, Va.; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan