Obit of Sneed, Shirley Marie (s530) - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Sandi Carter 6 Mar 2003 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ==================================================================== The Chickasha Express-Star 26 February 2003 SHIRLEY MARIE SNEED We are deeply saddened to announce the passing our mother, grandmother, and friend, who after a long and courageous battle, passed away Tuesday, February 25, 2003, with family by her side. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 1:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel. Shirley was born in Dallas, Texas, on February 21, 1946, the daughter of J. W. Thacker and Ruby Lee Cochran Thacker. Shirley moved to Chickasha as a child. She attended schools in Both Chickasha and Ninnekah. Shirley was always compassionate, always servicing others. Graduating from St. Anthony's School of Nursing in 1964, Shirley worked as a LPN at Grady Memorial Hospital. She spent ten years as a shift-nursing supervisor at Christian Care, also spending eighteen years at Southwest Youth and Family Services as both a family and drug and alcohol counselor. Over the years, she opened her heart and home to seven foster children. She will be remembered and deeply missed. Shirley was preceded in death by both parents and stepfather R. C. Chambers; grandmother: Maggie Cochran; one sister and brother-in-law: Billye and Rusty Vert; one brother: Carl Thacker and nephew Jerry Wheeler. Survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law: Phillip and Kristin Sneed; three daughters and sons-in-law: Carla VanDorn, Jami and London Jeffreys and Stephanie and Kevin Hayes, all of Chickasha; two aunts: Eva Cochran and Katherine Dulany; nine grandchildren: Jeff and Kerry VanDorn, Dusti, Phillip, Logan and Kaleb Sneed, Joshua Jeffreys, Kaila Hayes and Brennon Bush; two great grandchildren: Skylar and Brooklyn; and special friends left to mourn are Diana Cobb, Vicki Saliba, Mary West, Wanda and Dale Lane, Jami Mathews, Eddie Cowen and Rhonda Sneed. Heartfelt thanks go to Dr. Karen Maluf and to Cindy, Lisa and Becky of HOCO, for their care of our loved one. Interment will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html