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Anna F. (Snyder) Hottel

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Title

Anna F. (Snyder) Hottel

Subject

Hottel, Anna Florence Snyder (1900-1981

Description

Photograph of Anna Florence (Snyder) Hottel as a young woman.

Anna was the daughter of Ira James and Lelia Susan (Rudy) Snyder.

She married Lester L. Hottel (1889-1941) in 1924 and together they lived on Muhlenburg Street in Woodstock and raised a son, Daniel "Danny" Snyder Hottel (1925-2020).

When she married in 1924, the Shenandoah Herald published (on June 13th) an account of Anna's wedding. The article said, "Mrs. Hottel is an attractive young woman with many friends and is a talented musician possessing a voice of rare sweetness."

The article also said that her new husband, was a former teacher in the public schools and one of Shenandoah County's "most highly respected young men."

Their honeymoon was spent in Canton and Newark, Ohio, before they returned to Woodstock.

Anna became a registered nurse and worked at both the Fravel Hospital and the Shenandoah Memorial Hospital in Woodstock for many years.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Feb 1919".

Contributor

Identified in 2025 by Phil Hottel, the subjects grandson.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Anna F. (Snyder) Hottel appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002774, 018570, 018571, 024211, 024841, 026070, 026072, 026073, 030214, 040152, and 040275.

Identifier

024211

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Anna F. (Snyder) Hottel,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/53847.

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