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Obituary for Mae B. Connolly

MAE B. SNYDER CONNOLLY OF ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA PASSED AWAY ON JANUARY 28, 2016.

SHE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 8, 1915 TO EMMA ELBE SNYDER AND CHARLES ARTHUR SNYDER IN THE GREENPOINT SECTION OF BROOKLYN IN NEW YORK CITY. AT THE AGE OF EIGHT MAE MOVED TO BAYSIDE LONG ISLAND WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL SHE MARRIED.

MAE SPENT HER EARLY ADULT LIFE WITH HER HUSBAND, JOHN (JACK) MICHAEL CONNOLLY, IN HUGUENOT RAISING THEIR THREE CHILDREN, JACQUELINE, ARLENE, AND JOHN MICHAEL. GARDENING, CROCHETING AND READING WERE HER FAVORITE HOBBIES. SHE ALSO WORKED IN THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT OF CHASE MANHATTAN BANK FOR SEVERAL YEARS. IN 1974, MAE AND JACK RETIRED IN PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA. MAE RETURNED TO VIRGINIA IN 2009.

SHE IS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND, JOHN MICHAEL CONNOLLY AND BY HER SON, JOHN MICHAEL CONNOLLY, III.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTERS, JACQUELINE GROGAN AND ARLENE STEEVES ; DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, ADELE CONNOLLY; SONS-IN-LAW, TERRY GROGAN AND WAYNE STEEVES; GRANDCHILDREN, BETH LADD, KATHRYN SONANT, JESSIE GROGAN, DAN STEEVES, KRISTIN AIKALA, HEATHER FRANCISCO, PATRICK CONNOLLY, DAWN LESTER, JOY DUVAUL; AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN KEVIN AND EMILY LADD, NICHOLAS AND TREVOR SONANT, ELLIOT AND QUINTON STEEVES, CHLOE AIKALA , SAMANTHA SYRES, AMBERLY LESTER, JUSTIN AND BROOKE DEVAUL.

ONE OF THE LAST EVENTS IN MAE’S LIFE WAS HER JOYOUS 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WITH MEMBERS OF HER FAMILY, WHO ADMIRED AND ADORED HER.

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