Glenna Rae Snow

Glenna Rae Snow was born on October 7, 1932 to Clarence Mitchell and Grace Pauline Prisbrey Mitchell. She spent her youth in southern California, where she graduated from Adolph Leuzinger High School in Inglewood. She attended El Camino Community College while working at Northrup Aviation as a key-punch operator to fund studies at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Glenna met her husband Karl while a student at BYU. She worked as a kindergarten teacher for the Provo City School District following graduation, before they moved to Boulder City, Nevada in 1956 after Karl completed his metallurgical engineering degree. Karl spent his professional career at TIMET in Henderson, Nevada, while Glenna, in addition to being a mother to five children, also worked as a substitute teacher at Boulder City Elementary School.

Glenna was involved in community service through her church, where she served as an instructor in the young women’s program and as head of the women’s Relief Society, amongst other positions, in what was then the Boulder City Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). She also served as Chair of the Boulder City Hospital’s annual art festival. After her children departed home, Glenna began to paint watercolors and became a professional artist. She studied under Michael Ireland and began exhibiting her work throughout the west in various art fairs in the 1990s and early 2000s. She also offered art lessons as far afield as Montana, but mostly to members of the Boulder City community. She was a proud supporter of the Boulder City Art Guild. In addition to her time in the western US, Glenna loved nothing more than packing a backpack full of clothes she could discard along the way and hiking the trails of Europe, particularly the British Isles, with her friends. Following the death of her husband Karl in 2001, she served missions for the LDS Church in Santiago,Chile; Baltimore, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Chicago, Illinois.

The Snow family wishes to thank the staff of Lakeview Terrace for their patience and kindness to Glenna in her final years of life, as well as to the staff of Uplift Hospice for their care in the challenging closing months of her life. They also wish to thank the members of the Black Canyon Ward for their continued service as they labored to include her in ward activities despite her physical limitations and the many other members of the community who helped her in countless ways. Their devotion to service is an example to us all.

Glenna was predeceased by her brother Hal in 1993, her husband Karl in 2001, her son Mason (Rebecca Snow-Jappe) also in 2001, and her brother Hugh in 2008. She is survived by her children K. Mitchell Snow, G. Murray Snow (Cheri), Rebecca Snow (Keith Teel) and Jacob Snow (Cheryl); grandchildren Amy Kimball (Rex), Matthew Snow, Melissa Brixey (Christian), Andrew Snow, (Areli), Brandon Snow (Jill), Stephanie Steed (Kevin), Michelle Snow, Scott Snow (Lauren), Kathryn Snow, Aaron Snow (Olivia), Ethan Snow (Laura), Riley Teel and Elizabeth Teel, former daughter-in-law Rebecca Snow-Jappe, and 32 great grandchildren.

A viewing will be held for Glenna on February 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, February 13 in the Primary room of the Black Canyon Ward of the LDS church, 916 5th Street. The funeral service will be held at the same location on Saturday, February 14 at 9 a.m. She will be interred at a family service later that day at the Pine Valley, Utah Pioneer Cemetery.

Glenna has asked that, in lieu of flowers, her family and friends honor her memory by making a new friend by reaching out to others in kindness.