Anne J. Schneider

Anne J. Schneider, 81,

of Harlem went to be with

her Lord on December,

13, 2016.  She died peace-

fully at the Benefis East

Campus Heart and Vascu-

lar Intensive Care Unit in

Great Falls, Montana,

with her husband Ralph

Schneider of 49 years at

her side.

Funeral Services will

be on Tuesday, December

20, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at

St. Thomas Catholic

Church in Harlem.  A cre-

mation has taken place.

Edwards Funeral Home of

Chinook is handling the

arrangements.  Memorials

may be made to the Har-

lem Golf Course or St.

Thomas Catholic Church.

Anne was born July 26,

1935, in Minot, North

Dakota , the child of Jane

(Ackerman) Jennings and

Glen Jennings.  Anne be-

gan her music career at

the age of 2 Ω playing the

piano by ear.  She played

nursery rhymes and

technical exercises that

her mother’s piano stu-

dents played for their les-

sons at her home.

She learned to read

music at the age of 10

when she began playing

clarinet with the Minot

school system.  While in

high school the local band

director asked her to help

him out with his

over-load of beginning

clarinet students, thus be-

ginning Anne’s private

music teaching career at

the age of 16.

Anne married at age

19, moved to Seattle and

got a part time job teach-

ing accordion, where her

son Glen was born.

After a few years, she

and her family moved

back to Minot.   Anne es-

tablished a woodwind stu-

dio and taught private

music from her home and

her husband worked at

Pietsch Flying Service.

Her next adventure

was a pursuit of a college

degree in music at Minot

State College.  The educa-

tion system insisted that

she choose a minor.  She

chose business education

as her minor.

During her college

years she divorced her 1st

husband and met and

married her current hus-

band Ralph of 49 years.

They both were music

majors with a business

minor.

Anne and Ralph taught

music and business

classes in small town

North Dakota school sys-

tems from 1966 to 1980.

They came to the Harlem

School System as Music

teachers in July of 1980,

just in time to participate

in the teachers strike.

Anne continued teach-

ing elementary music for

17 years and retired at the

age of 61 to join Ralph

teaching music at the

North Harlem Colony for

7 years.  She finished her

music career as the pian-

ist for the Harlem Catholic

Church.

Anne is survived by

her husband Ralph, her

son Glen Pietsch of

Leavenworth, Kansas, and

her sister Judy Jeffries of

Baltimore, Maryland.