Grayson County TXGenWeb

Established 1948

Lucille J. Snowden
9 February 1909 - 28 September 1971

Walter L. Snowden
29 January 1909 - 13 April 1995

U.S. Navy
WWII

Sherman Democrat
April 16, 1995
Page: A-10

Services for Walter Lee Snowden of Sherman, 86 year-old retired truck driver, were held at 11 a.m. Monday in Waldo Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Larry Rice, Baptist minister of Pittsburg, officiated.
Burial will be in Cedarlawn Memorial with Travis Masonic Lodge No. 117 conducting graveside rites.
Mr. Snowden was born in Allen, son of Gideon Lewis Snowden and Ella Katherine Early Snowden. In 1934, he married Mildred Sprowl who died in 1950. After her death, he married Lucille Stout in 1952 who died in 1971. Later, he married
Marie Box Strickland in 1981, in Sherman.
A World War II Navy veteran, he retired from Anderson-Clayton in 1974, after 36 years of service and more than 3 million miles. He began his employment at Interstate Cotton Oil Refining Company, that became Mrs. Tucker's Products and later Anderson-Clayton.
He was a member of Travis Masonic Lodge No. 117, Scottish Rite and Hella Temple Shrine. He was also a member of the First Baptist Church Triple L Club, 42 Social Club and First Baptist Keystone Bible Class.
Pallbearers were John Hunter, Odell Webb, Ralph White, Bub Harris, Coad Robinson, Michael Morrison and Joel Cole.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Keystone Bible Class.
Surviving are his wife; daughter, Judy Carrol Robinson of Dallas; brother, Alfred Lewis Snowden of Waco; sister, Marie Christian of Sherman; and one granddaughter. The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. Sunday, and other times at the family home.
Memorials may be made to Home Hospice of Grayson County, P.O. Box 2306, Sherman, 75091.