Emma Lee Sneed

1932 in Pontiac, Michigan. After high school graduation, she attended

the Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing in Detroit, graduating in 1952

as a Registered Nurse. She married John H. Sneed, Jr. in 1955 and had

four children, John, Cheryl, James and Andrew. The marriage dissolved

in 1969. In 1974 the five of us, including Mom's parents and our cat,

packed up the station wagon and tent-trailer and moved to Boulder City,

we she lived for the rest of her life.

During the summer months, we were always headed somewhere in our

tent-trailer for Mom had itchy feet. If the word "stay-cation" had been

invented yet, she would have wrinkled her nose up at it and said, "Why

stay at home when you can go and do something you've never done before?"

During our childhoods, we saw more than 40 states and 25 National

Parks. Once she retired from nursing, there was no keeping her or her

itchy feet home. She looked like a sweet, quiet, little old lady but

inside she had a spine of steel. She white-water rafted down the Grand

Canyon, took a helicopter to the top of a glacier in Alaska, visited the

pyramids in Egypt, snorkeled at the Great Barrier Reef, rode a gondola

in Venice, fed the monkeys on her hotel balcony in Costa Rica and

explored the Catacombs in Rome.

In 1971, she went to Hawaii with a coworker and fell in love with the

islands. She quickly decided that if she were to give each of her

children a trip to Hawaii as a high school graduation present that she'd

get to go back at least four more times. She eventually made over a

dozen trips and told me that she'd like to have her ashes scattered

there someday.

Arrangements under the direction of Palm Boulder Highway Mortuary, Henderson, NV.