Carol Joy Johnson Snyder, 79, passed away due to complications arising from pneumonia on December 2, 2019. Born on January 3, 1940 to Glenn and Erlene Johnson in Memphis, TN, Carol is survived by her husband Dr. Dowen E. (Buck) Snyder, her sister Kay Johnson Carey (Benton Carey), her two children Scott (SoRhym Lee) and Joy, and two grandchildren Elliana (11) and Elyssa (8). She is also survived by her nephew Kenneth Ransom and his wife Beth, and her grandnieces Natalie (15), and Angela (12), her sister-in-law Martha Gray, her niece Debbie Noojin and her grandniece Lisa Lomotan, her sister-in-law Margaret Hastings and husband John, her niece Colleen Hastings Rogers and her husband Clay, and her grandnieces Emily (16), and Kathryn (13), and her nephew Jonathan Hastings, her brother-in-law Ernie Snyder and his wife Judy, her nephew Jason Snyder and his wife Kim, her grandnephews Blake (13), Nathan (11), and grandniece Kailyn (7), her niece Amy Snyder Serck and her husband Chris, her grandnephew Liam (7) and grandniece Lily (5). Carol graduated from Messick High School and Baylor University with degrees in English literature and French and taught high school French before she married and became a homemaker. Carol was a sword drill regional finalist in her youth and an amateur ventriloquist as an adult. She taught fourth and fifth graders in Sunday School at Bellevue Baptist Church and enjoyed art and music, especially hymns. The family wants to especially thank Bellevue Baptist Church Pastor Joe Jernigan and their Sunday School class for their love, prayers and support.
The family will receive friends on Friday, December 6, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Memphis Funeral Home 5599 Poplar Ave. The funeral service will begin at 2:00 p.m. also on Friday. Interment will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.memphisfuneralhomepoplar.com for the Snyder family.
