Former Governor Roy Lester Schneider Dies at 83

Schneider served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and he received a Bronze Star for his service as a medical advisor and surgeon from 1967 to 1968.

Charlotte Amalie𑁋Former Governor Roy Lester Schneider died Monday at the age of 83. In January 1995, he took office as the fifth governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He wedded Barbara Schneider and had three children. 

A Howard University graduate, Schneider became the first person to complete a kidney transplant on the island of St. Thomas. The Schneid…