Chyral Fern Jones Snyder (August 30, 1928 – March 10, 2018) Chyral Fern Jones Snyder died on March 10, 2018 after eighty-nine years of life guided by the enabling power of self-esteem, the principle of doing it with a “happy heart” and the ideal of “quiet elegance.” While all evidence indicates that she was born with a deep conviction of her own self-worth as a fully equal daughter of God, that confidence was certainly nurtured by her parents Elva Fern Nielsen Jones and Edward Evans Jones throughout her childhood in Malad and Pocatello, Idaho. This self-assurance shaped her further life course alongside her husband of forty-seven years, Phil Lyman Snyder. They raised a family together, but also developed their individual talents and careers so as to become a yet stronger team. As “Mrs. Snyder,” Chyral worked extensively in the health care sector. Employment in administration and office management utilized her considerable organizational skills. Yet more importantly, this career path offered possibilities to help others through her equally impressive interpersonal skills and gifts of empathy. “Do it with a happy heart” was an admonition that she often made to her children, meaning: “Work with willingness, joy, and whole-hearted effort.” She applied this principle to her professional work as well as to her activities in the LDS church, particularly in the Fullerton, California stake where she made her home for over fifty years. Chyral had a wide and diverse circle of friends, including her Relief Society sisters, the members of a long-standing couple’s dinner club, her beloved book club, and the Red Hat Society. She attended all of these social gatherings with well-applied lipstick because, as a variant of the “happy heart” principle, if you are going to do something, then make an effort. Ideally, make an effort to be “quietly elegant.” This belief explains her decision to don high-heeled Italian pumps for an extended family outing to the zoo when she was in her eighties (not an entirely bad decision, as such shoes can be even more effectively showcased when you are sitting on a bench supervising your loved ones). Her commitment to understated elegance also explains her talent for air-travel upgrades. Chyral loved travel, beautiful clothing and accessories, a well-appointed home (particularly if those appointments were in her favored shade of seafoam green), fine automobiles, dancing, romantic movies (better still, romantic movies with dancing), babies, ice cream, and, above all, her family. Every child, grandchild, and great-grandchild “exceptional,” as she would have been very keen to tell you. The greatest compliment that Chyral gave was to deem someone a person of “substance,” as she herself consistently strived to be a “woman of substance.” The term became famous as the title of a 1979 Barbara Taylor Bradford novel. While she adored that book’s story of a canny businesswoman who rises up from rural poverty to well-earned riches, she appreciated even more the idea of a person who had crafted goodness and strength into their very essence. Chyral certainly demonstrated this essential strength of character in her last years. In the face of progressive illness and physical decline, she maintained her elegance along with her gifts of happiness and self-esteem. But, above all else, she demonstrated the grit and determination characteristic of a scrappy Idaho girl of pioneer stock. A woman of substance indeed. We are proud of you, Mom, Grandma, Doodie. The family particularly wishes to thank the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Dr. Shami, and his team as well as the Moran Eye Center at Midvale Health Center for their expertise and care. We deeply appreciate the assistance offered by CNS Hospice Services of Utah County in the last months of Chyral’s life. Profoundest gratitude is owed to Heritage Care Center in American Fork. Their dedicated staff not only cared for our mother and grandmother with great competence; they provided us with examples of true human compassion. Chyral was preceded in death by her husband, Phil Lyman Snyder; her brother Edward LaVell Jones; and her daughter-in-law Lu Ann Faylor Snyder. She is survived by her brother Kline Jones; her children, Phillip Asa Snyder (Delys), Tracey Snyder, MaryAnn Snyder-Koerber (Torsten); her grandchildren, Kathleen Gayle Snyder Spjute (Alex), Travis Lyman Snyder (Heidi), Jackson Edward Snyder, Fiona Maurine Koerber, and Linnéa Katharina Koerber; her great-grandchildren, Hamilton Case Spjute, Beckett Roy Spjute, Abigail Fern Spjute, Calvin Otto Spjute, Luke Asa Snyder, Miles Edward Snyder, and Henry Travis Snyder; her five “bonus” grandchildren, Cristie Cowles Charles (Steven), Kathryn Ann Cowles (Geoffrey), Robert David Cowles (Erin), Steven Daniel Cowles (Brooke), and Marissa Delys Cowles; and her fourteen additional great-grandchildren, many cherished nieces and nephews, and friends who have become family. Memorial Services will be held on March 22nd at 11 am following a short viewing period from 10 to 10:45 am at Wing Mortuary (118 East Main, Lehi, Utah 84043). Interment will be at 12 pm on March 23rd at Altamont Mount Emmons Cemetery (16500 West, Altamont, Utah 84001).