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I started this blog in April 2011, the week of Mother’s Day, as an outlet for my challenges around facing Mother’s Day without my mom. I found that writing about life experiences in hopes of finding others like myself would help me to move forward in my life, and it did just that. If everyone who liked the Losing Your Parents facebook group donated $1, I would be able to get this started ASAP. Help me get this non profit set up and help me to keep this podcast and blog online and available for the world.

During the call, I plucked up my dad’s “CBS NEWS” hat that’s been sitting on my office altar for a while. It was here that he worked on direct satellite feeds to major network stations for projects such as Gorbechev’s meetings with presidents Reagan and Bush, including Camp David, ESPN’s He also worked for New Jersey Public Television as a transmitter engineer, at the Kentucky Educational Television Network from 1974 to 1975 as an audio and maintenance engineer, and at WLEX-TV in Lexington, KY working with audio, video and maintenance. Son of the late Emanuel and Lillian Snyder, he is survived by his daughter, Lisa Anne Snyder of Yardville; his former wife Joanne M. Snyder of Morrisville, PA; a brother and sister-in-law Gene and Roz Snyder of Phoenix, AZ; a sister and brother-in-law, Phyllis and Marty Williky in Keller, TX; his nephews, Gary and Robert Williky of Colleyville, TX; Scott Snyder of Scottsdale, AZ; his nieces Barbara Lyons of Old Bridge, Tami Strauss of Chandler, AZ, Joan Boiko of Palm Springs, CA; and all of their familes and many cousins.

In this episode, we discuss the loss of her neighbor to suicide, the tragic plane crash she witnessed with both her parents on board, and the death of her husband to a heart attack when she was pregnant with their their child. She is a grief and bereavement counselor, group facilitator, and educator who has been providing counseling services now for over twenty years. She raised three great kids; earned a doctorate which focused on grief and bereavement; married a wonderful man who has become the adoptive father of her children; counseled families whose loved ones died on 9/11; survived breast cancer; and as a grief counselor has provided counseling and support group services for loss, grief, and bereavement. Her first book, Colors of Loss and Healing provides a beautifully illustrated path toward healing from life’s losses and challenges.

Sergio Alemdariz is a University of Texas Grad Student working on his documentary, On Losing A Parent. In the film, Chaney Greenwood, Lyndsey Anthony, and Austin Gage will work on re-creating a photo of the parent they lost. Originally I wanted to try to get into Fiction films but during my Undergrad time at the University of North Texas Originally from Mansfield, Texas and now currently living in Denton, Texas with my girlfriend, two cats, and the world’s best dog.