Nellie June (Chapman) Schneider

June Schneider, 87, a former Farmington resident passed on Monday, Jan. 18th, 2016, in Payson, Utah. She was born Dec. 21st, 1928, at home in Maricopa County, Ariz., near the city of Chandler, Ariz., to Frank Henry Chapman and Margaret Lillian Celestine Jacobsen.
Her birth certificate shows her name as Nellie June Chapman but she was never fond of the name Nellie. She said it reminded her of an old nag horse. She was the youngest of 12 children and her older sisters would often carry her about. When she was a young woman, her family left Arizona and moved to New Mexico; north of Aztec in an area called Cedar Hill and close to the Animas River. She has told her children and grandchildren of swimming in the Animas River and in particular of sneaking down to the river at night to cool off before bed. She developed a talent for drawing and earned spending money
by drawing paper dolls for the weekly Sunday newspaper. Later in life she took up oil painting and created some wonderful landscape paintings.
June married Joe R. Schneider at the age of 18 and together raised five children, Bonnie, JoAnne, Wayne, Carole and Dale. These five children gave her 23 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren.
Some of the places June lived are Aztec, Bloomfield, Farmington, Lybrook, Largo Canyon, Barker Dome, and Truth or Consequences in New Mexico.
A viewing will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23 at Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in Farmington. A funeral service will follow at 10 a.m. by the funeral service. The public is invited. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery, 1606 N. Dustin Ave. in Farmington.
June's care is entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home, 103 E. Ute St. in Farmington, 505-325-8688.