Miriam Ruth Lindberg

Miriam Ruth Snider Lindberg, also known as Mim, Mimi, and Mor Mor was born July 20, 1948 to Ruby Eulene Moore Snider and Stone Mountain Snider in Minneapolis Minnesota. She was the fourth of eight children born to the Snider family.

As the family of a Baptist minister and salesman, the Sniders moved many times during Miriam’s early life. From Minneapolis, the family moved next to New Richmond, Wisconsin, and then to Eureka, California, where many of Miriam’s fond childhood memories were formed. She was a tomboy who spent hours throwing a baseball with her brother Charlie in the neighbor’s upper pasture, and she loved to dress up like a cowboy and pretend to fire her six-shooter. This is also where she gained her lifelong love of rainy, overcast seascapes.

The Snider family moved to Hacienda Heights, California in 1958, where ten year old Miriam and her siblings learned the retail meat business by working in their uncle’s and father’s meat markets.

At Los Altos High School, Miriam was competitive in sports with softball being her favorite. In school she became best friends with an exchange student named Jutta from Germany and after graduating high school she travelled there to see her and to explore Europe.

Miriam married her husband Daniel Robert Lindberg on August 2, 1969 and they lived in Whittier, California. They had 2 children, Barbara and Thomas. Later, Miriam and Daniel went into business with Stone Snider, manufacturing specialty sauces and seasonings for sale primarily in independent meat markets up and down the West coast. The Lindberg Snider Company, in La Puente, California is still going strong 50 years later.

For recreation, Miriam played on adult women's softball teams in Whittier. Some of her team names were “Old Gold”, and “Black Widows”. She was always looking for opportunities for travel and in 1983, she took a second trip to Germany and various destinations in Europe, and again visited England in 1990. She loved long drives, especially in the rain. She loved spending time on the Oregon coast, drives to Laughlin, visiting the redwoods, and going to Dodger Stadium. She also enjoyed metal detecting and coin collecting.

Miriam Ruth Lindberg passed away on April 14, 2026 at 77 years of age. She is survived by her children, Barbara Lindberg (Ted) Neinast, Thomas (Deborah McCosh) Lindberg, and her 5 grandchildren, Sinéad, Kieran, Lucille, Eliot, and Edith. She is also survived by her siblings Charles (Judy) Snider, Deborah (David) Pecheur, and Melody Behringer. She was preceded in death by her husband Daniel Lindberg, (married 52 years), her parents, Stone and Ruby Snider, her sisters Brenda Mudra, and Sharon Dartt, and her brothers, James (Jimmy) Snider and Peter Snider.

Mom, we love you and we miss you.