Joyce A. Schnieder

Footprints  
One night a man had a dream. In it he was walking along a beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord. When the final scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back, at the footprints in the sand. He noticed many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints, and realized that they came at the hardest and saddest times of his life. Bothered about this, he questioned the Lord saying, "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,  You'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most burdensome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you the most You would leave me. "The Lord replied, "My dear child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that "I carried you."
             
                                Author Unknown

   Joyce Annette Schneider, 67, of Mexico, died at 1:45 a.m. April 6, 2003, at her home.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 2 p.m. at South Fork Presbyterian Church with Rev. John R. Grimmett officiating. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 1 until service time at the church. Burial will be in South Fork Cemetery.

Mrs. Schneider was born on July 7, 1935, in Toulon, Ill., the daughter of Isaac and Rachel (Gill) Bergthold. On Aug. 7, 1951, in Harrison, Ark., she married Harold Ellis Schneider who survives at the home.

Mrs. Schneider attended South Fork Presbyterian Church and had participated in the Santa Fe Social Club.

In addition to her husband, survivors include three daughters, Debbie Canine and husband Calvin, Mexico, Susan Heuer and husband Ronald, Columbia, and Sandy Jackson and husband Curtis, Mexico; two brothers, Harold Bergthold, Wyoming, Ill., and John Bergthold, Perry; three sisters, Mrs. Johann Rumbold, Princeton, Ill., Audrey Little and husband Francis, Virginia, Ill., and Bonnie Utterback and husband Richard, Paris; six grandchildren, Justin Wilson, Ashland, Chris Wilson, Kirkwood, Catherine Wilson, Gainesville, Fla., Jill Jackson, Mexico, and Natalie and Julie Heuer, Columbia.

Her parents, three sisters and four brothers preceded her in death.

The family suggests memorial gifts be given to South Fork Presbyterian Church in care of Pickering Funeral Home, 403 N. Western, Mexico, MO 65265.

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