Lucile Wright Snyder, 79, of Hogansville, formerly of Ocilla and Arabi, died Thursday, August 27, 2009, at her residence. Graveside funeral services will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 30, 2009, in Tift Memorial Gardens. Dr. Danny Ray will officiate with burial to follow in Tift Memorial Gardens. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Sunday, August 30, 2009, from 2:00 p.m. until the hour of the service at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Mrs. Snyder was born on December 19, 1929 in Arabi and was the daughter of Gus Wright and Callie Wright Mitchell, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Snyder; one sister, Faustine Wright Hudson; and one granddaughter, Aimee Groce. Mrs. Snyder graduated from Arabi High School in 1947; attended a short while at the August Technical College and worked in the medical field for over 15 years; retiring from an orthopedic surgeons group in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1986. She was a medical receptionist before her marriage, then a homemaker.
Mrs. Snyder is survived by two sons and one daughter-in-law, Joseph and Tanya Sanders of Carrollton, John Lowary of LaGrange; one daughter, Callie Thornton of Hogansville; one sister, Zonella "Jackie" Wright Carter of Sebring, Florida; step-children, James C. and JoAnn Snyder of Tifton, Eugene and Denise Snyder of Cordele, Terry and Brenda Snyder of Turner County, Patsy and Dan Shealy of Winterville, Christine and Jimmy Albritton of Moultrie, Joanne and Tom Burton of Crawford and Mary Nell and Steve Greer of Tifton; 16 grandchildren; 24 great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.