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So I had to do this paper for Eglish. It was an autobiography, but I wrote mine in the form of a Euligy. So yeah... We are here today in remembrance of David Schneider. He was an influence, and was looked up to everywhere he went. Many people loved and respected him. David’s life was one of joy and happiness, pain and sorrow, fortune and poverty.
He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and lived there for only a year before his father was moved to Ohio. His father was a pastor in the United Methodist Church. After completing pre-school in Finley, Ohio, the family was moved again back to Michigan because of his father’s job. David went through elementary school in Morrice and then his middle school in Wisner. David never really had any stories about those years, it was high school he often talked about.
David was a fun kid to hang around at Monroe High School. He was comic, was there for his friends, and was matched in wit by no one. He wasn’t always the smartest though. I remember a specific evening. He had gotten off work at Mancino’s on Saturday night. He had planned to crash a party that some of his friends were at. He happened to called the cell phone of one of his friends that was at the party. The girl that was hosting the party answered the phone and said no one was at her house while he was outside looking at thirty cars sitting on her street. Obviously he was mad and planned with another friend to come back later and teepee the house. He went home, told his parents he was going to bed then snuck out and got caught then was grounded. What an idiot.
While smarts were not his forte in high school, he never had a problem with girls. David somehow managed to always end up dating girls named Angela that lived an hour away. During sophomore year, he went out with a girl named Angela Hart. She lived in Warren while he was in Monroe. His senior year, he dated a girl named Angela Pryor. She lived in Sterling Heights while he still lived in Monroe.
Halfway through David’s senior year was when he started making his big fortune. David opened a small server/website construction business that ended up growing to be much bigger than he ever thought it would.
After earning enough money to pay for his own college and still have enough left over to buy a small castle in Atlanta, and thirteen cars ranging from Porche’s to Lambourghini’s, he graduated from Berkley school of music. It was not long after this that David was discovered by Columbia Records playing at a club in Atlanta.
For a few years, life was great. David was a rock star. Mansions, expensive cars, and women everywhere. It wasn’t long until he became very unhappy. Nothing could please him anymore. This is when he fell back hard onto alcohol and drugs. For five years, David went nowhere. He wouldn’t talk to his family or friends and was writing and releasing songs about suicide, and murder. In the middle of a concert in Miami, he found God. In an instant his whole outlook on life took a 180. During the concert, he dropped his guitar and walked straight offstage. I was there that night. For the first time in a long time he was truly happy. Within that year, he reunited with his high school sweetheart Angela Pryor. They were married a year and two months later.
This is when a new chapter of David’s life began. David was a husband, father, and all around family guy. He and his wife opened a restaurant back in Monroe, MI where he had spent all of high school. From then on, his life was perfect. At least until his wife, Angela Pryor-Schneider died at age 57 from the kidney disease she had had all of her life. David was instantly grieved and returned for a while to the mentality that he had had in his rock star years. It didn’t last long because David was a Christian and God was with him this time. By this time, his two kids, blank and blank were already out on their own, so David decided to make his comeback on stage.
David Schneider toured the country once again and released three new albums. It was the ending to a long and strange adventure. At the age of 63, David Schneider was struck with and died of cancer. We will all remember him very dearly.