Marcia Snodgrass

MARCIA ANNETTE SNODGRASS

Cedar Rapids

Marcia Annette Snodgrass, 65, of Cedar Rapids, won her battle with breast cancer and was ushered into heaven on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at New Covenant Bible Church (3090 N. Center Point Rd., Cedar Rapids). Celebration of Life services will follow at 2 p.m. and will be officiated by Pastor Mark Forstrom. Interment: St. Joseph's Cemetery on Sisley Grove Rd. SW. Arrangements will be handled by Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cedar Rapids.

Marcia Annette Smith was born to the Rev. A. Ronald and Lois Irene (Leard) Smith on May 3, 1951, in Greenville, S.C. She graduated from Downingtown High School in Downingtown, Pa., in 1969 and earned her B.S.N. degree from Alderson Broaddaus University in Philippi, W.Va., in 1973. She met Charley Snodgrass over Thanksgiving weekend in 1968 at a Christian youth conference in Estes Park, Colo. They were married by her father at Muncy Baptist Church on March 29, 1975, in Muncy, Pa. They lived in Oxnard, Calif., while Charley was stationed at NAS Pt. Mugu. They moved to Cedar Rapids in 1977.

She worked on St. Luke's fifth floor until 1986, and then was a stay-at-home mom to their two children until 1998. Then she joined the wonderful team at Therapy Solutions, where she worked until December 2016.

Marcia and Charley found their second family as members of New Covenant Bible Church for nearly 40 years.

Her love and faith in Christ, gracious spirit, hospitality, generosity, listening ear, wonderful cooking, and laughter are greatly missed by those surviving her husband, Charley of Cedar Rapids; their daughter, Rachel (Jason) Grimm of Cedar Rapids; their son, Joel (Lindsey) Snodgrass; granddaughter, Cecilia of New Orleans, La.; her mother, Lois Smith of Middletown, Pa.; her brother, Alan (Lorraine) Smith of Ambler, Pa.; sister, Karen (Roy) McCloskey of Middletown, Pa.; two sisters-in-law, Larletta and Connie Snodgrass of Littlerock, Calif.; three brothers-in-law, Jim (Pam) Snodgrass of Rohnert Park, Calif., Tim (Erin) Snodgrass of Palo and John (Sylvia) Snodgrass of Austin, Texas; along with 31 nieces and nephews and their spouses; 21 great-nieces and great-nephews; and many lifelong friends.

Because of their love for the Lord, greeting her in heaven were her grandparents, father, aunts and uncles, in-laws, great-nieces and great-nephews, and nephew, Ian, with whom she shared a special bond through their shared journeys with cancer.

We are especially grateful to her longtime friend and physician, Dr. Mary Anne Nelson, who has been her tireless advocate, and for those who cared for her: Jim and Angie Nowak and the Therapy Solutions family, Dr. William Fusselman and PCI and UnityPoint teams, and many of our friends and family.

And while we grieve, we do so with great hope and the knowledge that we will see her again. It was her heartfelt desire, as well as ours, that you would know that hope and can live in that knowledge, too.

Memorials may be sent to New Covenant Bible Church or His Hands Free Medical Clinic.

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