This fund has been created for two reasons. There is the part of this request that must exist for pure existential necessity. There isn’t money to pay for a funeral. Paula’s company life insurance was done away with during the pandemic and had not been offered as an option yet through her work. We hope you will consider giving as a community who loves Paula and wants to see her final memorial in this world to be one of honor, dignity and laughter. 

The other part of this gofundme is more whimsical in nature. If you found your way to this page and you didn’t know this amazing lady, she lived her life to celebrate its pauses. Paula knew that in between the action of life - it’s various and violent swings towards happy or sad - there were moments that were still and pure and meaningful. In the cadence of the cicadas in her back yard or the clink of metal bats at a child’s baseball game, she found meaning in people. She invested into them so much that her own biggest dream was never fulfilled. 

We would like to scatter her ashes in Italy. We wish she would have gotten a chance to go while she was alive. It was her big, huge, someday-maybe bucket list item, and she had saved and saved and FINALLY scheduled her trip….. for September of 2020. It was cancelled for Covid restrictions. We would like to spread her ashes in the place she spent her whole life building towards in her mind. 

We need your help to help Paula finish strong. Thank you my dear friends for caring enough about Paula Snider to read all of this. And  thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your amazing generosity. We love you. Even if we haven’t met, we love you. 

Lindsey, Leann, Michael, & Sean