Vida Ellen Snow, 90, of Seal Beach, Calif., a native of Lawrence County, Mo., died June 15, 2008, in hospice care at Seal Beach, following long illnesses. Miss Snow, a retired professional librarian who never married, was born a twin daughter of George W. and Maud E. (Seneker) Snow on Jan. 25, 1918, in the Downey community in western Lawrence County. Miss Snow and her sister, Lida Helen graduated at the head of the class of 1941, at Mount Vernon High School; Miss Snow as salutatorian and her sister as valedictorian, overcoming a post-Downey Grade School delay of a few years in schooling during the Great Depression. The sisters graduated in 1945, from then Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, Springfield. Vida taught at West Plains High School the next year, then moved to California, following her sister, who had married Howard Lockwood, a Californian she met while he has in Air Corp studies on the Springfield campus. Vida received her masters degree in library science from the University of Southern California. She worked at the Santa Barbara Public Library, Millikan High School Library, Long Beach Public Library and then 25 years at Long Beach City College Library. After retirements she and her sister moved to Leisure World, Seal Beach in 1986. A former member of Downey Church in Lawrence County, she attended Leisure World Community Church. She was preceded in death by her sister on Feb. 7, 2000; and a brother, Hazel A. Snow, Sarcoxie, Mo., in 1966. There are no immediate survivors. However, nephews, Jim Lockwood, Scottsdale, Ariz., Harlan Snow, Joplin, and Faye Lewis, a niece, of Grove, Okla., mourn Vida's passing. No funeral service is planned and burial will be in Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, under the direction of Luyben Family Dilday-Mottell Mortuary, Long Beach.