and Shaker of the Millennium" by the Philadelphia Daily News. In 2005, Snider was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. In 2011, Snider was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2012, the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association renamed its Humanitarian Award as the Ed Snider Lifetime Distinguished Humanitarian Award, with Ed Snider as the first recipient of the newly named award. Personal life Snider has five children. He had 15 grandchildren at the time of his death. Jay Snider served as president of the Philadelphia Flyers from 1983 to 1994, and president of Spectacor, Inc. from 1987 to 94. Most of his children worked for Spectacor or Comcast-Spectacor at some point during their lives. Snider was married four times. His first marriage was to Myrna Gordon. They had four children and divorced in 1981. In 1983, he married model Martha McGeary with whom he had two children. They later divorced. In 2004, he married Belgian Christine Decroix (born 1957), a former singer for the Belgian girl-pop group the Lovelettes in the 1970s; they divorced in 2009. He married his fourth wife, Lin Spivak (born 1968), on February 14, 2013. Snider was a brother of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Death In 2014, Snider was treated for bladder cancer. Although he announced in September 2014 that he was "cancer free", the cancer subsequently returned in 2015. After a months-long battle, Snider died on April 11, 2016, at his home in Montecito, California and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. The Flyers wore a patch in his memory on the right shoulder, a black circle with "EMS" in white, for their Stanley Cup Playoff series against the Washington Capitals. For the following season, they wore a patch on the same shoulder, this one having Snider's signature in a black circle, with a line and the Flyers logo under the signature. In 2017, the Philadelphia Flyers unveiled a statue of Snider below his old office outside the Wells Fargo Center. References Bass, Alan (2022). "Ed Snider: The Last Sports Mogul". Triumph Books. External links Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets The Snider Foundation Comcast-Spectacor 1933 births 2016 deaths Burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Lester Patrick Trophy recipients Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from bladder cancer National Basketball Association executives National