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The Oregonian, Portland, OR., April 13, 1943, page 4

WORKER AT SWAN ISLAND KILLED

Morris S. Schneidler, 55, of 55 N.E. Ainsworth street, was killed instantly at Swan Island shipyard Monday when a steel plate, being lowered by a crane, crushed his head against a piling. He was directing installation of the plate, police stated, and gave the order to the crane operator to drop the load while it was still above him. The body is at the morgue.

The Oregonian, Portland, OR., April 14, 1943, page 19

Schneidler - April 12, Maurice Schneidler, late of 55 NE Ainsworth; husband of Lottie Pearl Schneidler, father of Mrs. Pearl Whitman, Mrs. Rubby Muleback, Mrs. Opal Huffsmith, Ben, June, and Janet Schneidler. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 15, from the Presbyterian church, Glenwood, Wash. Friends invited. Interment Glenwood cemetery. Remains will be at the Pearson Funeral Church, NE Knott st. at Union ave., until 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Deceased was a member of Glenwood Grange No. 94.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., April 16, 1943, page 1

SHIPYARD WORKER'S FUNERAL HELD AT GLENWOOD APRIL 15

GLENWOOD, April 13 -- (Special) Word was received Monday morning, April 12th, from Portland, Oregon, that Maurice Schnydler was killed at the shipyards early that day. It was not learned just how it happened. His wife and family here at Glenwood left immediately for Portland. The funeral will be held Thursday, April 15, in Glenwood at the church. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., April 22, 1943, page 5

SERVICES FOR M. SCHNEIDLER HELD AT GLENWOOD, 19TH

Funeral services were held here Thursday for Maurice Schneidler, 52 year-old Glenwood farmer, who was killed at the Kaiser Vancouver yards early on Monday morning, April 19, graveyard shift. Promoted to a rigger, Schneidler was said to be with only one other workmen the only two experienced men working on his crew that night. Newly promoted from fitter to rigger, Maurice was most successful at his work in the shipyards and appeared years younger in his adjunct to the new employment. Other employees were absolved from blame in the accident by a company statement published saying the signal order for moving of the steel piece had been given by Schneidler, who not yet clear, was struck at the base of the skull. Death was instantaneous.
The Rev. B.J. Fike, of Vancouver, came to officiate at the services held in the First Presbyterian church, which pulpit he recently filled here. Other workmen coming from Portland, fellow employees of Kaiser who have gone from this valley, served as pallbearers. They were: Alvier Kuhnhausen, W.A. Martzall, Coke Jenkins, and a Mr. Quigley, Ben Hansen and Osmar Kuhnhausen were other bearers. Maurice was born in Chicago, Feb. 10, 1891 and came to Glenwood with his mother and sister at the age of six years. He had made his home here for 46 years.
In 1916 he was married to Lottie O'Neal. They had eight children, six of whom are now living to survive their father. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lottie Schneidler, Glenwood, two daughters in Portland, Mrs. Pearl Whitman and Mrs. Ruby Maulback, and Benny, June and Janet of Glenwood, and Mrs. Bert Huffsmith. Five grandchildren of the family are, Margaret and Bert Huffsmith, Frances and Joan Maulbach, and Donna Whitman. Niece and nephews are Mrs. George Dean and her brothers, Herman, George and Arthur Gerbing.
Maurice Schneidler was a Silver Star Grange member having maintained 25 years of continuous membership in the Glenwood Grange. He also served for many years as Grange trustee, and assisted in determining the policy for cemetery maintenance. A very large crowd attended the funeral at which Mrs. Fred Feller and Mrs. Homer Babcock sang with Mrs. John DeVries as accompanist.
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the members of the bereaved family in this tragic happening to their father, who lost his life on the ship-front just as truly as a member of the fighting forces might have done on a battlefront.