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'''Carrie Snodgress''' (1946 - 2004), acress best known from ''Diary of a Mad Housewife'' (1970), and from her long relationship musician Neil Young.

Copyright 2007, by Will Johnson [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], Professional Genealogist

Carrie was born on Oct 27, 1946 in Illinois.  Sources vary as to whether she was born in Park Ridge, Chicago, or Barrington.

Carrie died Apr 1, 2004 in Los Angeles while awaiting a liver transplant.

==Primary documents==
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=50000&path=Obituary.Chicago%2c+Illinois.1963.Chicago+Tribune+(1963-Current+File).1842&sid=&gskw=Record+Snodgress&cr=1 Obituary of Melvin Charles Smeck and Carrie Louise Smeck] her grandparents mentioning that they were "...parents of Carolyn Jane Snodgress; grandparents of Skip, Mel, Carrie, and John; sister and brother-in-law of Berneice H Davis of Judyville, Ind and Mrs Winifred Webb of Saugatuck, Mich."

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=495173972&fn=&ln=Record+Snodgress&st=d&ssrc=&pid=461258 Marriage announcement] of Harry A Snodgress Jr to the former Carolyn Jane Smeck, with her picture.  Married on Jul 27, 1940 at the Joseph Bond chapel, of the University of Chicago.  Mentions that her parents the Melvin C Smecks are "of Beverly Hills".

==Secondary sources==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Snodgress Carrie Snodgress] on Wikipedia