Timmy L. Snowden
Sterling - Timmy Lee Snowden
Jr., 28, died March 28, 2006, at El Paso, Texas, from
injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
He was born Feb. 17, 1978, in
Pamona, Calif., the son of Timmy Lee and Donna Louise
Person Snowden, Sr. He graduated in 1996 from Nickerson
High School. He was a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, being
honorably discharged in September 2005 after nine years of
service.
He belonged to the Lutheran
faith, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, both oat
Fort Hood, Kileen, Texas. He served in the U.S. Army at
Korea and Iraq. While in Iraq, he was awarded the bronze
Star with Valor.
Survivors include: a son,
Taylor James Snowden; two daughters, Amber Marie Snowden,
and Courtney Lavada Snowden, all of Hutchinson living with
their mother, Karen D. Snowden; his father and stepmother,
Timmy Lee and Bonnie Snowden Sr., McFarland; his mother
and stepfather, Donna and Bill Geist, Sterling; a brother,
Jeremy, Gulf Port, Miss.; two sisters, Chandra Lambert and
husband Ben, Hutchinson, and Janil Snowden, sterling; a
stepsister, Rebecca Linton, Anchorage, Alaska; and
grandparents, Harry and Lavada Person, Rancho Cucamonga,
Calif., Robert and Velma Geist, Hutchinson, and Helen and
Roland Cobb, Sterling.
Funeral will be at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at Elliott Mortuary Chapel, with Pastor Loren Mai
presiding. Friends may sign the register from 9 a.m. to 9
p.m. Sunday and Monday and from 9 a.m. to service time
Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Penwell
Gabel Memorial Park Cemetery, with military graveside
rites conducted by the Fort Riley Honor Guard.
Memorials may be sent to the
Snowden Children Education Fund at First National Bank,
Hutchinson.
(there is a photo of Timmy L.
Snowden on the obituary)
The Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas
Sunday, April 2, 2006
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