\t\t\tJudith Valentine Schneider \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Born Judith Marie Foster on November 7, 1941, in Salinas, California to Lloyd Joseph and Alice Marie Foster. After a year\u2019s long battle with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Judy passed away on May 25, with her husband and caregiver, Jack, at her bedside. She was raised on her parent\u2019s farm in the Salinas valley. She was the middle child between two brothers, oldest brother Bill and younger Jim. Her parents were both champion skeet and trap shooters and Judy once told a story about her shooting a BB gun at a hummingbird and hitting it in the eye. Obviously, she had the sharp-shooter gene. She attended Spreckels elementary school, Salinas High School and Gavilan college. She met her first husband Ray Valentine in Salinas. They had two children, Michael Ray and Cynthia Kay in Salinas before moving to San Jose where Ray worked at Locheed and Judy took a job at the San Jose Mercury News in the Advertising Department and later in the Classified Advertising Department. In 1982, her husband, Ray, passed away. In 1984, at a dinner party with her coworkers she met Jack Schneider, who worked in the Information Systems department at the newspaper. Their first date was soon after at a 49ers game, they fell in love almost immediately and married on May 22, 1986, in the Fern Grotto on Kauai, Hawaii. Judy was willing to try anything, learned how to ski in her forties, went skydiving on her fiftieth birthday, went scuba diving in Tahiti and after her retirement in 1998, learned how to play golf. As a member of the San Jose Country Club, Judy played at least three times a week, was Captain of the ladies 9-hole group and later the 18-hole group. Judy was very easy to love and made many lifelong friends at the club usually with a hug. Judy enjoyed traveling with Jack and they went on numerous cruises, skiing and golf vacations. She loved animals starting with horses on her family farm and later cats and dogs. Her household was never without a dog, or a cat or sometimes both. Judy was a year\u2019s long member of the Hillcresters, a charity group of ladies from the East Foothills and volunteered at the Youth Science Institute. Judy was a loving mother to her children and stepmother to Jack\u2019s three children.<\/p>\n
Judy was predeceased by her parents and her two brothers, Bill and Jim. She is survived by her husband, Jack, her children Mike Valentine (Liza), Cindy Brenning (Kurt), stepchildren Jeffery Schneider, Katrina Schneider (BJ) and Selena Schneider Ubando (John), ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren with one more on the way. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association or the American Cancer Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judith Valentine Schneider OBITUARY Born Judith Marie Foster on November 7, 1941, in Salinas, California to Lloyd Joseph…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-342664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}