Died, Bill Schneider, 80

摘要

Long-time California mineral dealer William Thomas "Bill" Schneider passed away unexpectedly on February 8,2011. Bill was bora in San Diego, California on May 6, 1930, the son of Anna Giuseppa Favro (a telephone operator) and John William Schneider (a stereotypist). He grew up in San Diego until the beginning of World War II, when his family moved to rural La Mesa, California, where they raised Holstein heifer calves to maturity. Their next move was to rural Poway, California near San Diego, establishing Schneider's Dairy. Bill graduated from Escondido Union High School, receiving the first State Farmer Degree in the school's Future Farmers of America chapter, of which he was president in his senior year.