Elizabeth Snellgrove Henderson

HENDERSON, Mrs. Elizabeth Snellgrove, 94, a resident of Brantley, AL died Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at Brantley Baptist Church with Rev. Burney Enzor, Rev. Jim Tate and Rev. Travis Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in Brantley Cemetery with Turner Funeral Home of Luverne directing. Mrs. Henderson is preceded in death by her husband, Raymond E. Henderson, Sr.; parents, Louis and Mattie Snellgrove; two brothers, Purnell Snellgrove and William Snellgrove; son-in-law, Vernon Robbins. She is survived by three children, Earl (Gayle) Henderson, Melissa(Jack) Jackson and Mary Lib Robbins; nine grandchildren, Donna (John) Glover, Amy Hope (Jon) Tulloch, Misty Taylor, Laura (Jonathan) Layfield, Judith (Jim) Tate, Rachel (Charles) Farmer, Elizabeth (Paul) Wilander, Forrest (Brooke) Jackson and Daniel (Sherei) Jackson; twelve great grandchildren; brother, Dr. Don (Margaret) Snellgrove, along with several nieces and a nephew. Active pallbearers will be John Glover, Jon Tulloch, Jonathan Layfield, Charles Farmer, Forrest Jackson, Daniel Jackson, John Snellgrove, Comer Carpenter and Paul Wilander. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the L.L.L. Sunday School Class. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday evening from 6 to 8 PM. Mrs. Henderson will lie-in-state at the church on Saturday for one hour prior to service. It is the family’s request that memorials be made to Brantley Baptist Church, P.O. Box 61, Brantley, AL 36009, to The Gideons International, P.O. Box 51, Luverne, AL 36049, or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1893, Memphis, TN 38101-9950.