Today we lost the last of the Snell sisters, Inez Snell Layton. Aunt Inez was the youngest of Mavis Snell Matthews’ sisters. Mavis was my beloved mother-in law, or as one of my storytelling friends says it, “mother-in-love”. Here is a picture of Inez I took a couple of years ago on her 93rd birthday with a picture of her mother in similar pose on her 93rd. The wonderful woman in the black and white picture, Annie Brannon Snell, is the namesake of our eldest daughter, Brannon Shaw . Aunt Inez was a kind, talented , and intelligent woman. Like her older sisters, Ethel and Mavis, she was a nurse. Like her sisters she accepted me as an integral part of her family from the day I married Sheila Matthews Shaw. I am truly blessed by my extended Matthews/Snell family. I will miss Inez as I do Ethel, Mavis, Dot, and Rose. I have been a blessed man.
Rest in peace Aunt Inez
Ruth Baird Shaw
Nora, you and all your family are in my thoughts and prayers, I have heard so many good things about your Aunt Inez , your grandmother, Mavis and all her sisters,
Nora Matthews
Thank you Ruth Baird Shaw
Nora Matthews
I miss our granny so much
Cynthia Rintye
Thank you for the wonderful tribute.
Nora Matthews
Aunt Inez is with granny now Faye Layton. I love you
Linda Beam
Long life.
.looks happy and young there
Joan Shaw Turrentine
Sheila,Terrell, Brannon, and Lillian, so sorry for your family's loss.
Nora Matthews
Me too! Sheila Matthews Shaw is my dad's sister
Galen Dale Foster
Terry Brenda and are so sorry for your loss. All of you are in our prayers and our Lord will be by your side.
CeCe Baker
So sorry, Terrell Shaw. My grandmother was one of 12 (11 living) children, and I am forever guided by "The Sisters" and the love, kindness and lessons they brought to our family. All of them were blessed, like your mother-in-love, by long lives - which made it all the more bountiful for us. As you know, her lessons and love will live on, through your stories and her "visits." Savor the peace and calm that comes with this moment. In spite of the grief, it's special.
John Countryman
Sandra Popham
sweet memories
Tim-Wanda Baird
Praying
Deanne E Daniell
So sorry for your, and your family's, loss!
Sandy Doughty
So sorry for this loss. Sending prayers for your family.
Rita Lawler
You have been blessed w the women in your life Terrell. You are surrounded.
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