Earlier this year the Community Networking family mourned the passing of Steve Cisler. 

Today we learned of the pasing of another of the founders of the AFCN ... Steve Snow passed away this weekend.  He will be greatly missed.

Here follows the obituary note.

Stephen Hopkins Snow, MA, PhD

Stephen Hopkins Snow, formerly of Charlotte, NC and St. Petersburg, Fl. died suddenly on December 27^th in Asheville, NC where he maintained a clinical practice in counseling. He was the loving father of Stephanie Snow Tursi, Mary Snow and Timothy Snow of Charlotte, NC and Katie Snow-Rackley of Cleveland Heights, Ohio and is survived by grandchildren: Amanda, Ella, Jonah, Benjamin, Ruthie, Samuel and Thomas Tursi and Eli and Sylvia Rackley and siblings Roger Snow of Boston, Ma., Susan Snow-Burnett of Norfolk, Va., and Deb Snow of Santa Cruz, Ca. He will also be mourned by his former wife Patt Snow, friend Ed Fierstos and fiancée Cynthia Yancey.

Steve was a graduate of Northeast High School in St. Petersburg, Fl, and The University of South Florida at Tampa and received both a Masters and PhD degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was a respected journalist of 28 years in Clearwater, Fl. and Charlotte, NC and the founder of Charlotte’s Web, a free provider of internet access to the community of Charlotte.

Steve was known for his prowess as a woodworker and a blacksmith who loved to build furniture and refurbish tools and make them usable again. He was a dynamic personality who was involved in many other charities and organizations and touched many lives.

Visitation and viewing will be at the Carolina Funeral and Cremation Center at 5505 Monroe Road in Charlotte on January 1^st from 7 to 8:30 pm and the funeral service will be at the same location on January 2^nd at 2pm.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be sent to the Western Carolina Chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness or the Buncombe County Public Health Foundation. Please specify for domestic violence/child advocacy.