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Judith Fern Snapp Gill

 Wife of Sam Gill, Professor - Religious Studies

   

  

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May 19, 2019

Judith Fern Snapp Gill, 77, passed away May 19, 2019. Judy graduated from Wichita University (now Wichita State University) with a master's degree in English Literature, preparing for a career teaching secondary English. Judy and her husband, Gill, first lived in Wichita and then moved to Park Forest, Illinois as Sam enrolled for graduate study at The University of Chicago Divinity School. Following Sam's career toward professorship in History of Religions, especially in Native American Religion, the couple and their son spent a summer living in a native built hogan on the Navajo Reservation near Tuba City, Arizona. The family then moved to Tempe, Arizona where Sam taught in Religious Studies at ASU from 1975-1983. After a sabbatical at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Sam accepted a position at C.U. Following Judy and Sam’s divorce in 1995, Judy later worked at the University of Colorado Credit Union and then at the Boulder Police Department until she retired in 2010. Donations in her name may be sent to the Alzheimer's Association. Judy is survived by two children, three grandchildren, two sisters, a brother and her former husband, Sam Gill. (Source: ASU Foundation)