Community deaths Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Ted Schneider,
computer programmer Ted Schneider, 71, a retired Montgomery County government computer programmer who received awards for his performances in Washington-area community theaters, died Nov. 7 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. The cause was complications from pneumonia, said his former wife, Susan Joplin. Mr. Schneider, who lived in Silver Spring, Md., was a native Washingtonian. He worked as a Montgomery County Ride-On bus driver in the 1980s and as a computer programmer for 28 years until 2014. He started performing regularly in community theater in the 1990s. He won an Eastern States Theater Association award for acting in “Perfectly Good Airplanes,” part of the Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival in 2017. He directed plays and performed in musical productions with the Washington Revels.