Bluma Beatrice Snell

Bluma Beatrice

Quick Snell

Bluma Beatrice Quick Snell, 87, died Friday, October 10, 2008, in Norfolk. A long-time resident of Afton, and later Charlottesville, she was born in Nellysford, Virginia, to the late Robert George and Etta Campbell Quick.

She was a graduate of Rockfish Valley High School and Dunsmore Business College. Mrs. Snell greatly enjoyed her many years of service in the Materials Science Department in the School of Engineering at University of Virginia.

In the early 1960's she managed the office for Dr. Robert Raynor, when he began his medical practice in the Rockfish Valley. A member of Broaddus Memorial Baptist Church, in Charlottesville, she had been active in their Senior Choir. Upon moving to Virginia Beach in 2005, she took great pleasure in being part of the "Young at Heart" choir at First Baptist Church in Norfolk. An avid traveler, she toured almost all of the United States and Canada, the Caribbean, all of Europe and several cities in Russia, and loved looking through her photos of past trips. She often remarked that before anyone could say, "let's go" she would be in the car. And all who knew her will agree that she never missed an opportunity to stop and shop.

Mrs. Snell was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Christian Snell, as well as all 10 of her brothers and sisters, Medford George Quick, Helen Virginia Wood, Robert Eldridge Quick, Randolph George Quick, Hazel Etta Quick, Buddy Corbett Quick, Kemper Campbell Quick, Sally Elizabeth Irvine, Calvin Coolidge Quick, Evelyn Dawn Kent.

She is survived by a daughter, Sandra Snell Billy, and two grandsons, John Christian Billy and Stephen Ryan Billy, all of Virginia Beach; a sister-in-law, Mattie Davis Quick of Waynesboro, and numerous nieces and nephews on both the Quick and Snell sides of her family of whom she was very fond, as well as many dear friends in Afton, Charlottesville and Virginia Beach.

In keeping with the wishes of her family there will be no public visitation.

A private graveside service will be held on Monday, October 13, 2008, at Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery in Afton.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to Hebron Baptist Church, 66 Tanbark Rd., Afton, VA 22920, Broaddus Memorial Baptist Church, 1525 Stony Point Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22911 or the Kempsville Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 62345, Virginia Beach, VA 23466.

Relatives and friends are invited to share condolences and memories with the family www.reynoldsfuneralservices.com.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Waynesboro Chapel of Reynolds Hamrick Funeral Homes, 618 West Main Street.


This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.