Funeral service for Shirley Hodges Snider will be 12:30 P.M. Monday, January 25, 2021 in the Sterling Church of Christ, Sterling, Oklahoma with James Rennaker, minister officiating.

Burial will follow at Fort Sill National Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Shirley Hodges Snider, age 80, passed away Saturday, January 16, 2021 in Grapevine, Texas.  She was born September 18, 1940 in Big Spring, Texas to Bernard Cleveland and Lois Elizabeth (Lynn) Coates.  She attended San Angelo High School.  She married Floyd Bryan Hodges and they moved to an air base near Laguna, California.  Their daughter, Resa was born in June 1960.  They moved to Corpus Christi, Texas in 1961.  Their second daughter was born in December 1962.  They lived in Corpus Christi until 1970.  She went to college to become an art teacher.  They moved to Aspen Valley,  Colorado  to help establish the Church of Christ there.  They lived there until 1976.  She did paintings of the Colorado mountains and sold them in Aspen.  They moved to Ada, Oklahoma and lived there until 1989.  She became a real estate broker and opened her own real estate office. They moved back to Aspen Valley, Colorado and again she enjoyed doing paintings of the Colorado mountains and working with the church until 2005.  She then moved to Sterling because of her health.  She bought houses at auction, renovated them and then rented the houses for retirement income.  Floyd died in 2009.  She married Bill Snider in 2010 and continued to enjoy retirement together.  Bill died in April 2019.

Survivors include two daughters, Resa Fulmer and her husband, Bert Fulmer and Lavon Cronje and her husband, Johan Cronje, eight grandchildren, Matthew Fulmer, Renae Jones, Luke Cronje, Benjamin Cronje, Gracie Cronje,Sadie Cronje, Cassidy Cronje and Sawyer Cronje and two brothers, Danny Coates and his wife, Mary and Ray Coates and his wife, Maryann.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, parents and a brother, Bernard Cleveland Coates, Jr.