Anne J. Schneider

Anne J. Schneider, 81, of Harlem went to be with her Lord on December, 13, 2016. She died peacefully at the Benefis East Campus Heart and Vascular Intensive Care Unit with her husband Ralph Schneider of 49 years at her side.

Funeral Services were on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Harlem. A cremation has taken place. Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook is handling the arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Harlem Golf Course or St. Thomas Catholic Church.

Anne was born July 26, 1935, in Minot, North Dakota the second child of Jane (Ackerman) Jennings and Glen Jennings. Anne began her music career at the age of 2 ½ playing the piano by ear. She played nursery rhymes and technical exercises that her mother's piano students played for their lessons 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 beginning 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 teaching accordion, where her son Glen was born.

After a few years, she and her family moved back to Minot. Anne established a woodwind studio 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 education 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 husband 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 systems 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 teaching 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 pianist 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.

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