POLITICS

Public invited to Snelling memorial

Free Press Staff

Barbara Snelling, candidate for lieutenant governor, on election day in November 1998 reacts to news that she was tied with Democrat Douglas Racine at 49 percent of the vote. She went on to lose the election by 500 votes.

A memorial service for former Lt. Gov. Barbara Snelling, who died last week, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday.

Snelling was married to former Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling. After his death, Snelling continued public service as lieutenant governor from 1993 to 1997, and then as a state senator for Chittenden County. She died Nov. 2 at age 87.

The memorial service is open to the public and is expected to be held in the House Chamber of the Statehouse in Montpelier, followed by a reception in the Statehouse's Cedar Creek Room.

Gov. Peter Shumlin and Lt. Gov. Phil Scott are expected to attend.

Former Lt. Gov. Barbara Snelling dies at 87