OBITUARIES
Marvin Sentell
1931-2004
Marvin F. Sentell, 73, died at 10:40 p.m. Thursday, April
15, in Cogdell Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Service for Mr. Sentell was set for 2 p.m. Saturday in
the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. Fane Downs, interim pastor, officiating. Burial was
to follow in Snyder Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Bell-Cypert-Seale
Funeral Home.
Born Feb. 24, 1931 in Snyder, he was a graduate of Snyder
High School and Texas Tech University. He graduated from the University of Texas School of
Law in 1955.
Mr. Sentell served as an artillery officer in the U.S.
Army for two years and worked in the district attorney’s office in Fort Worth for one
year before joining the office of Texas Attorney General.
He married Julie Tiffany on Nov. 1, 1975 in Snyder. Mr.
Sentell returned to Snyder in 1988 to set up a private law practice until 1998. He was
Democratic candidate for 132nd District Judge in 1992. Mr. Sentell was active in the
Snyder Rotary Club, serving as club president in 1994 and as district governor in 1996. He
also was a Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Fellow. He was a member of the First Presbyterian
Church in Snyder where he served as an elder.
Mr. Sentell also was a director of the Snyder Area
Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, a director and past-president of the Historic Scurry
County Inc., and a director of the Children’s Trust Fund of Texas Family Pride
Council.
He and his wife Julie also were active in the Rotary
Youth Exchange program and served several times as host parents for exchange students in
Snyder.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, John Sears
Sentell and Joe Sentell.
Survivors include his wife, Julie Sentell of Snyder; two
daughters and sons-in-law, Holly and Mike Davis and Erin and Lawson Copley, all of Dallas;
two sons and daughters-in-law, John and Waylana Sentell of Lamesa and Mike and Susanna
Sentell of Austin; a sister, Mary Sue Harbaugh of Anacortes, Wash.; four nieces, Susan
Birkenfeld of Snyder, Diane Russo of Waco, Kelley Mabry of Spokane, Wash., Lois Harbaugh
of Bellevue, Wash.; two nephews, Mark Harbaugh of Fircrest, Wash., and Charles Harbaugh of
Seattle; a cousin, Anne Sears of Longmont, Colo.; and 10 grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Scurry County Museum, 6200
College Ave., or to a favorite charity.
