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Sherrie Elaine Snapp Dozier Bosworth

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Sherrie Elaine Snapp Dozier Bosworth was born on November 5, 1948, and passed away on March 2, 2014 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences after a courageous battle with cancer that began in 1998. Sherrie was born and raised in Branson, Missouri. She graduated from Branson High School and moved to Arkansas to attend college. She married Ronald Dozier in 1967 and started her family. In 1977, after she was widowed, Sherrie became active in politics in the 1970s and helped to advocate for the passage of legislation that reformed and modernized survivor's benefits for firemen and police officers. In 1978, Sherrie married Hugh Bosworth. Sherrie became active in Friendship International in the 1970s, a program ministering to international residents living in central Arkansas. Sherrie obtained her CDL in order to transport people from the area to the ministry in Little Rock, transporting as many as 35 people each Thursday. She worked with Friendship International until her illness prevented her from continuing. Sherrie's faith was a defining characteristic and only strengthened during her life. As Sherrie's body weakened, her faith remained resolute. Sherrie's favorite bible verse was 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Sherrie was a member of Lonoke Baptist Church, Women's Mission Union, Kiwanis Club of Cabot, as well as the chairman of the Arkansas Women's Commission. Sherrie was preceded in death by her grandparents Luther Sims, Beatrice Hurd Sims Thurman, Madison "Matt" and Ethel Chaney Snapp, father Rex Irven Snapp, and her first husband Ronald Frederick Dozier. Sherrie is survived by her loving husband Hugh Humphreys Bosworth, Jr.; sons, Matthew (Jill) Dozier of Sherwood, Ark.; Christopher (Michelle) Dozier of Cordova, Tenn.; Brandon (Myra) Bosworth of Honolulu, Hawaii; daughters, Priscilla (Scott) Needham of Little Rock, Ark.; Eleanor (Edward) Upton of Prosper, Texas; Elizabeth (Jeremy) Perrone of Little Rock, Ark.; as well as twelve grandchildren: Megan Dozier of Maumelle, Ark.; Lauren Dozier of Sherwood, Ark.; David, Kaitlyn, Nathan, and Joshua Dozier of Cordova, Tenn.; Benjamin and Ruth Upton of Prosper, Texas; and Luke, Chase, Jonathan, and Nash Perrone of Little Rock, Ark. She is also survived by her mother, Phoebe Snapp of Springfield, Mo., and sisters: Jerrie (Larry) Wise of Joplin, Mo.; Susan (Darrel) Bearden of Branson, Mo.; Mary Scaggs of Farmington, Ark.; Kem (Richard) Adams of Springfield, Mo.; and Amy (John) Whorton of Ava, Mo.; and fourteen nieces and nephews and nineteen great-nieces and nephews. Memorial donations may be made to the WMU Vision Fund. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, 2014, with visitation at 1 p.m. at Snapp-Bearden Funeral Home in Branson, Mo. Burial will follow in the Ozarks Memorial Park Cemetery, Branson. A memorial service to celebrate Sherrie's life will be held at Lonoke Baptist Church in Lonoke, Ark., on Friday, March 7, 2014, at 6 p.m.

Published March 5, 2014

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