- Date Of Birth: June 8, 1985
- Date Of Death: February 9, 2022
- State: Colorado
Shnelle Angela Woodard, age 36, entered Heaven on February 9, 2022. Shnelle was born on June 8, 1985 in Denver, Colorado. She was raised in Littleton, Colorado, where she went to Ralph Moody Elementary School, Euclid Middle School and Heritage High School. In 2004, she moved to Durango, Colorado, to attend Fort Lewis College, where she went for Sports Medicine, but changed to Business Art and coached lacrosse for 4 years as well, while attending.
Shnelle loved Denver, and she moved back there in 2007. As a Colorado native, born and raised, she was a diehard Denver Broncos’ fan too. She enjoyed sports. To add, she played varsity lacrosse in her freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years of high school in Littleton, Colorado, at Heritage. She went on to play lacrosse in college, at Fort Lewis, in Durango, Colorado and her love for coaching lacrosse there, was also a strong passion of hers with the Native American kids on campus. She mostly enjoyed running. Furthermore, lacrosse also complimented her Native American heritage (half Navajo), as lacrosse is historically, a Native American sport, originally known as stickball.
She enjoyed her job as a Title Abstractor, in the oil and gas industry, embraced receptionist work throughout the Denver metro area and mostly, loved working in a dog daycare, in Ken Caryl for some years. Shnelle was a dog and dolphin lover as a little girl and throughout her adult years. She had a big heart, a contagious laugh and a bubbly personality. Her love for Colorado was for the beautiful snowy Rocky Mountains, where she loved to snowboard, hike, camp and sit and watch the breathtaking sunsets. She liked to refer to herself as a “Snow Bunny”. She always wanted to travel to Switzerland, where her dad’s mother, Grandma Elizabeth Liechti, was born and raised, to snowboard those mountains during the snowfall months.
Shnelle loved God and she always knew that God loved her and that he would take care of her. She enjoyed going to her Christian youth group meetings through the Littleton Bible Chapel, in Littleton, Colorado, in her junior and senior high school years at Heritage High School. The LBC youth group took small road trips via their youth group van and Shnelle loved those trips.
Shnelle is survived by her divorced parents, Scott Woodard, of Littleton, Colorado, and Arlene Taylor-White and her spouse, of DeWitt, Iowa, and three sisters, Lynnzie, Taeleen and Keriaua Woodard, of Littleton, Colorado. Half sisters, Narelle-Kalita Sapolu and her spouse and son of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Chelsea Fuentes and her spouse and son of Sandpoint, Idaho. Uncles and aunts include: Craig and Elaine Woodard of Mountain Grove, Missouri, and Sean Taylor-Tate and his spouse of Mesa, Arizona. Cousins include: Nathan Woodard and his spouse of Redding, California; and Colleen, Mary and Shauna McKinney of Denver, Colorado. Several other relatives (aunts, uncles and cousins) on her mother’s side, live in Tuba City, Arizona, of The Navajo Nation.
Shnelle was preceded in death by her grandparents, Kenneth Woodard, of Littleton, Colorado, Elizabeth Liechti of Littleton, Colorado (native to Switzerland), Maxine Joyce Taylor, of Julesburg, Colorado, Delbert and Nellie Chee of Tuba City, Arizona, of the Navajo Nation, her great great grandmother, Hazel Chee, of Tuba City, Arizona, of the Navajo Nation, her infant baby brother, Joshua Woodard of Littleton, Colorado, her Uncle Gary and Aunt Gale McKinney of Englewood, Colorado and cousin, Daniel Woodard of Mountain Grove, Missouri.
This mass is for immediate family only, to honor and to celebrate Shnelle’s young life.
