Anna Mae Bray Snodgrass, 90, Vienna passed away quietly Friday morning July 31, 2020, with her family at her side at the Capitol Region Medical Center in Jefferson City.
She was born Sept. 7, 1929, to Millard Anderson and Orpha Irene Brown Bray in Vienna.
She was united in marriage June 28, 1947, to Delmar Norman Snodgrass at the Union Hill Baptist Church in Vienna.
Anna loved her family. She was married for 68 years and Delmar and Anna Mae devoted their lives to God and worshiped the Lord at Union Hill Baptist Church all their life. They raised six children on the Gasconade River farm and she assumed the duties of a farm wife doing whatever needed to be done on the farm. She worked beside her husband feeding cattle and hogs and chickens, but raising the children was her most important crop. Delmar and Anna Mae raised their children with a strong work ethic, good moral values and taught grandkids what to do with sprouts and if something needed to be done, they were taught to take care of it.
She was preceded in death by parents, Millard and Orpha; beloved husband, Delmar; daughters, Eletha Bastion and Irene Henderson; brothers, Berthel Bray and wife Ruth, Lonnie Bray and Jimmy Bray; sisters, Helen Opperman and husband Leroy, Henrietta Jean Cobble and husband Bert and two sisters in infancy, Dorothy and Elaine; along with many other relatives and many friends.
Anna is survived by her dear children, Norman Snodgrass and wife Sandra, Dwight “Ike” Snodgrass and wife Debra, Mary Jane Duncan and Jeane Stegeman and husband Raymond, all of Vienna; sons-in-law, Donnie Bastion of Meta and Loyal Henderson of Vienna; former sons-in-laws, Charles James Duncan and Don Lanning, both of Vienna; brother, Ellis Bray and wife Jackie of Osage Beach; sister-in-law, Sylvia Bray of California; 16 very special grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and one great-grandchild soon to arrive in August.
Anna will lie in state at the Union Hill Baptist Church in Vienna at 11 a.m., Thursday Aug. 6.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m., Aug. 6, at the Union Hill Baptist Church in Vienna with Adam Duncan and Woodrow Martin officiating. Piano music will be provided by Millie Wieberg. Congregational singing will be Shall We Gather at the River and Far Side of Jordan will be played. Mrs. Snodgrass will be laid to rest beside her husband at the Union Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbears will be Tiffanie Meyer, Erin Robertson, Christina Adams, Michelle Alexander, Debra Lee Miller and Anna Duncan.
Memorial contributions suggested to the Union Hill Baptist Church. Cards of condolences, flowers and gifts may be entered on the funeral home website at www.jonesfunerals.com.
Arrangements entrusted to the Jones Funeral Home in St. James.
