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Submitted: 7/12/20 • Approved: 7/12/20 • Last Updated: 7/15/20 • R333192-G333191-S3
April 10, 1911 - January 28, 2006
On Saturday, January 28, 2006, Elizabeth Armstrong, 94, left this life at her home in Floydada. Services were held Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at First United Methodist Church of Floydada. Internment was at Floydada Cemetery.
She had been a life long resident of Floydada she moved to Floydada with her family at a year old from Plainview where she was born in 1910. She went to Lubbock Beauty School and received her license as a beautician. She then went to Magdalena, New Mexico and worked in a salon, while living in a boarding house. She returned to Floydada a year later and married Clyde Snell on July 17, 1936 at the McKinney home. They moved to Fort Worth and in 1937, their son, Harold Snell was born in Floydada, at the family home. She remained in Fort Worth and ran her own beauty salon for two years. She and Harold then returned to Floydada to live with the family. She worked in several salons in Floydada. In July 1945, she married Glenn (Jack) Armstrong. They moved to California and Jack retired from the LA Police Department the next year. They moved back to Floydada and she has lived here ever since.
She was a life long member of the First United Methodist Church of Floydada, serving on probably every committee possible. She talked many times about the honor she received in being included in the meeting to decide on the stain glass window in the new church. She helped make many of the quilts given to the church bazaar and passed the quilting tradition down to Vivian, Donna and Darolyn. Handwork was her main hobby other than serving duties at the church and taking care ofher family. She also served as an officer on the boards of Senior Citizens and Spirit of Sharing.
Mrs. Armstrong was preceded in death by her parents; sisters Emma Lou Whitaker, Dovie Kendrick, Helen Solomon, Peggy McKinney; brothers John McKinney and Jack McKinney; her husbands Clyde Snell and later Jack armstrong.
She is survived by her son Harold Snell of Floydada; two sisters, Virginia Snell and Margaret Burton both of Lubbock; two grandchildren, Mark Snell and his wife Darolyn, Donna Webb and her husband Tracy; and three great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren all of Floydada.
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