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Lucy Kenney
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1924 - 2016
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Obituary for Lucy Kenney Snell (Thomas)

Lucy Kenney  Snell (Thomas)
Lucy Kenney Thomas Snell, 91, died on July 28, 2016.
She was born on September 5, 1924 in Bourbon County, Kentucky where she resided most of her life.
She was a 1942 graduate of Clintonville High School and a proud 1947 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Journalism.
During her college years she worked on staff at the Ohio County News in Hartford, Kentucky and was also employed in Johnson City, Tennessee for a company building materials for World War II.
After college she worked in fashion advertising for several major Lexington retailers and for the Lexington Herald Leader. She also served as a church secretary for Rhodes Thompson at Paris Christian Church and was a teacher for the Paris City School and Sayre School in Lexington.
She married her best friend and next-door neighbor, Marion Snell on August 20, 1950 at Antioch Christian Church.
While she was employed in several different capacities, her true passion was with the land. She was always so proud to tell everyone, “I am a farmer”. She worked beside her parents, William Kenney and Myra Thomas and her husband, Marion, on their family farms on the Paris-Lexington Road. She took over the farming operation after Marion died in 1974, primarily raising cattle and tobacco.
Even into her 80s, she loved walking the farm daily to observe God’s beautiful creation and writing poetry about Kentucky’s Magic Bluegrass and The Giant Sycamore.
Like her college professor, Dr. Thomas Clark, she loved history, especially of her local community, Hutchison, and was so proud of her family heritage consisting of the Jacobys, McLeods, Kenneys, and Thomases.
As a life-long learner, she returned to the University of Kentucky in the 1980s and 1990s to take agriculture and art classes as part of the UK Donovan Program. This opportunity led to art study trips out west and abroad to Ireland, Spain, and France. She studied art under Joseph Fitzpatrick and Robert Foose and admired the art of Monet and Paul Sawyer.
For several decades she followed her mother as the pianist/organist at the Hutchison Methodist Church where she was a life-long member and led the women’s Sunday School class. She was also a member of the Jemima Johnson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution for more than 50 years and was inducted into the Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture.
The family wishes to express sincere thanks to the great care for Ms. Lucy at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Richmond Place (Brookdale) and Bourbon Heights. A special thanks for her dear friends at Richmond Place, John Beard, Pete Hinkle, Debbie Brackett, Pauline Mack, Grace Clark, Sonja Dudley and many others.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the Hutchison United Methodist Church.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Marion Daily Snell and a brother, Houston Kenney Thomas. She is survived by her sons Kenney (Cathy) McLeod Snell and William (Amy) Marion Snell, and her three granddaughters Ellen, Lucy Ann, and Caroline.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, July 31, 2016, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Hinton-Turner Funeral Home in Paris and 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Hutchison United Methodist Church, 251 Hutchison Road, on Monday, August 1, 2016. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. at Hutchison United Methodist Church on August 1st followed by burial in the Paris Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Will Snell, Kenney Snell, David Henry Snell, John Snell, George Jacoby, Jay Jacoby, Lloyd Stafford, and John Gorrell. Honorary pallbearers will be friends and staff at Richmond Place.

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