Clara Snowden Obituary

SNOWDEN, Clara Lee DARLINGTON - Clara Lee Chandler Snowden passed away peacefully at a Florence hospital on Friday, October 28, 2005, after being in declining health for several years. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Monday, October 31, 2005 in the Chapel of Morris Funeral Home of Hemingway. Interment will follow in Indiantown Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 - 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Mrs. Snowden was born February 12, 1917; a daughter of the late George Frank and Leila Davis Chandler. She was a graduate of Union High School and Columbia College. Her graduate work was done at Furman University, The University of South Carolina, and The Citadel. She was a member of Parkwood Presbyterian Church where throughout her life she taught different levels of Sunday School and served in numerous church positions. She taught school for 43 years in Williamsburg, Georgetown, and Charleston County area schools. In addition, she served as three different elementary school principals, the last one being Porter-Gaud Elementary and was the first female to ever served in this capacity. Upon her retirement of 16 years with Porter-Gaud, she was a consultant for Brookwood Private School in Statesville, NC. Mrs. Snowden is survived by her husband of 65 years, Clarence P. Snowden, Jr.; one son, Clarence P. Snowden, III, and his wife, Linda of Florence, SC; two grandsons, Carl Edward Armstrong and his wife, Lea of Savannah, GA, and Christopher Allen Armstrong and his wife, Laura of Jackson, Ohio; three great-grandchildren, Faith, Bethany, and Nicholas Armstrong, and a number of nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by four sisters, Gladys Cox, Ethelyn Bryan Brown, Claudia Alford, and Alice Breaugh; and four brothers, Wilson, Harold, Sherod, and David Chandler. Serving as pallbearers will be Barry Chandler, Jay and Flynn Cockfield, Eddie, and Chris Armstrong, Hamp Snowden, Joe Snowden, Davis Chandler, James Tomilson, and Gevert Hollings. Memorials may be made to Indiantown Presbyterian Church, Parkwood Presbyterian Church, Bethea Baptist Retirement Community and Health Care Center, P.O. Box 4000, Darlington, SC 29540 or to a charity of one's choice. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.