Army Spc. Deangelo B. Snow

Died September 17, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom

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22, of Saginaw, Mich.; assigned to 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; died Sept. 17 at FOB Wilson, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade.

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Snow remembered as being a talented artist

The Associated Press

SAGINAW, Mich. — A soldier from Saginaw who died when insurgents in Afghanistan attacked his vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade is being remembered as a talented artist with a big heart, his aunt said.

Spc. Deangelo B. Snow, 22, died Friday in Kandahar province, according to the Pentagon. Charlene McCall told The Saginaw News that her nephew was in the military to serve his country.

“He was very well-known, very polite people person,” McCall said. “He was loving, funny, loved to dance.”

Before being deployed in June to Afghanistan, McCall said Snow drew an image for his mother, Deloris Snow, of two hands pushed together in prayer. Dangling from the fingers is a dog tag necklace bearing his name.

His mother made the image into a tattoo on her leg. McCall said it was one of her nephew’s last gifts to her.

“He was a loving brother, nephew, cousin, grandson, son, friend,” McCall said.

Snow’s death came nearly a year after his father, Barnell Amos, died after a robbery gone awry in Saginaw. A 9-year-old boy also was killed the Sept. 21, 2009, robbery. The case remains unsolved,

Snow had seven brothers and seven sisters between the families of his father and mother. He was engaged to be married.

Snow joined the military a year after graduating high school, McCall said. He was assigned to the 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.

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Flags lowered for Campbell spc.

The Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff for a soldier from Saginaw who was killed in Afghanistan.

Flags are to be lowered Sept. 28 in honor of Army Spc. Deangelo B. Snow, 22. He died Sept. 17 when insurgents attacked his vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade in Kandahar province.

Snow was assigned to the 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.

Snow’s funeral service is scheduled for Sept. 28 at Wolverine State Baptist Headquarters in Saginaw. Burial is to follow at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw.

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Motorcade includes Patriot Guard riders, military

The Associated Press

SAGINAW, Mich. — More than 100 people, many of them weeping or saluting, watched as a color guard delivered a flag-draped casket containing the remains of a Michigan soldier killed in Afghanistan to his hometown of Saginaw.

A motorcade of police, military, family and Patriot Guard motorcycles escorted Army Spc. DeAngelo B. Snow’s body to a funeral home on Sept. 25.

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Granholm orders flags lowered for Saginaw soldier

The Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff for a soldier from Saginaw who was killed in Afghanistan.

Flags are to be lowered Tuesday in honor of Army Spc. Deangelo B. Snow.

The 22-year-old died Sept. 17 when insurgents attacked his vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade in Kandahar province.

Snow was assigned to the 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.

Snow’s funeral service is scheduled for Tuesday at Wolverine State Baptist Headquarters in Saginaw. Burial is to follow at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw.

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Snow was talented artist

The Associated Press

Before he deployed to Afghanistan, Deangelo Snow used his talents as an artist to design a special reminder of him for his mother, Deloris.

He drew two hands pushed together in prayer, with a dog tag necklace bearing his name dangling from the fingers, and she had it made into a tattoo on her leg, according to The Saginaw News in Michigan.

Snow, a 22-year-old native of Saginaw, Mich., died Sept. 17 in Kandahar province after his vehicle was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade. He joined the military after graduating in 2008 from Buena Vista High School, and he was assigned to Fort Campbell.

"He was very well-known, very polite people person," an aunt, Charlene McCall, said. "He was loving, funny, loved to dance."

People writing remembrances in an online memorial described him as an outgoing and creative man who was loved like a brother by some of his closest friends.

Snow's death came nearly a year after his father died after a robbery gone awry in Saginaw.

The soldier's survivors include his mother and stepfather; seven brothers; seven sisters; and his fiancee, Shanlece Scarborough.