Sandra Gayle Snow

Sandra Gayle Snow (Shurbet), also known as Mom, Nana or Mama Gayle, of Como, TX, went to be with Jesus and her loved ones in Heaven, on June 10, 2025, at the age of 79. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, June 14, 2025, at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Pastor Leo Wisniewski officiating. Interment will follow at Richland Cemetery in the Brinker Community with Charlie Livsey, Jon Gleason, Matthew Nordin, Kenny Robbins, Paul French and Cole Banks as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Billy Couch, Felix Salmeron and Scott White. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service.

Sandra Gayle was born in Denton, TX on December 5, 1945, to Bowen Woodie and Lucy Louellen Snow, who preceded her in death. She graduated from Denton High School in 1965 then attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. She always talked fondly of her job at Duke & Ayres 5 Cent to a Dollar Store during that time. In her junior year of college, she married Anthony Austin (Tony) Shurbet on November 4, 1967. They were married for 19 years before divorcing in 1986. They always remained the best of friends. Tony preceded her in death on July 22, 2016. Tony and Gayle had 2 daughters, Dawn Michele Shurbet and Gayla Tonette Shurbet Livsey, who is married to Stephen Livsey.

Tony and Gayle moved to East Texas on September 11, 1974, where they owned and operated a very successful dairy farm for many years. She was also employed by Saltillo School for a time as a teacher’s aide and bus driver. Gayle later worked for Northeast Texas Industries (NETI), The Hopkins County Compaction Station and The Hopkins County Civic Center where she was a certified jailer and from which she retired in 2010 after 22 years of employment with the county.

Gayle’s survivors include her daughters, Michele and Gayla and husband, Stephen and adopted daughter, Lisa Jetton, one grandson, Charlie Livsey (TJ) of Greenville, TX and three granddaughters, Meagan Livsey, Emily Livsey, and Hannah Livsey, all of Sulphur Springs, TX, two great-granddaughters, Evelynn Robbins and Lilly Harrington, and many others whom she viewed as her children and grandchildren. Other survivors include her sister, Patti Culter of Magnolia, TX and brother, David Snow of Slidell, TX, three nieces, Terresa, Debbie and Shannon, sister-in-law, Tracy Duffie, adopted grandson, Felix Salmeron, her dear friend, Billy Couch, and her little brown doggie, Buckles.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Linda Smith of Gainesville, TX.

“They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.” Jeremiah 31:12b

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