Mrs. Ralph Snell

Mrs. Ruby Eley Snell, 95, of Florence, died Thursday, May 10, 2007, at ECM Hospital after a brief illness. She was a native of Bedford County, Tenn., member of Mars Hill Church of Christ, AWO, Mars Hill Bible School and Heritage Women.

Visitation will be today, May 12, 2007, from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Mars Hill Bible School, Morris Auditorium. Funeral services will be Sunday, May 13, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. in Morris Auditorium, with burial in Greenview Memorial Park. Officiating will be Mrs. Snell's sons.

Mrs. Snell was preceded in death by her husband of 47 years, Thomas Ralph Snell; parents, William and Evie Eley; brothers, William F., Cecil, Thomas Clay and Don Bright Eley.

She is survived by sons, Thomas Ralph Jr. (Jincy), Kenneth Lee (Susan), David William (Jane) and Jonathan Earnest (Lea); daughters, Jewel Kendrick (Ronald), Joy Brown (Gerald), Joan Dixon (Robert), Jan Brantly (James), Jill Watson (Russell) and Jerrilyn Kelley (Richard); brothers, G.L. Eley, of Shelbyville, Tenn., and James M. Eley, of Corinth, Miss.; sisters, Gladys Harper, of Florence, and Evylin Lowe, of Shelbyville; 34 grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be sons-in-law, Ronald Kendrick, Gerald Brown, Robert Dixon, Jim Brantly, Russell Watson and Richard Kelley Jr.

Honorary pallbearers will include the elders and ministers of Mars Hill Church of Christ.

Arrangements are by Greenview Funeral Home.