Conway Sperry Snyder passed away with family at his side, the first son born to Don Vernon Eugene Snyder and Pearl Sperry, third of nine children. He grew up on Coatsville Avenue in Salt Lake City, later moving to Logan Avenue in this large family of sisters and brothers, spending time during the summers in Snyderville, near Park City. He attended Salt Lake City schools including South High School where he was a leader in the ROTC. He attended the first Utah Boys State at Camp Williams and felt especially blessed to have grown up with kind and good friends and family. Conway left Salt Lake during his freshman year of college for an appointment to West Point. He later joined the Army Air Corps, flying 29 missions in the Pacific. He served as lead gunner on a B-29 flight crew. After the war he resumed his education at the University of Utah and met then married Frances Ann Green on June 17, 1948 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He graduated with a BS degree in Education. He then attended dental school at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois graduating as a Doctor of Dental Surgery. Con and Fran returned from Chicago to Salt Lake. Con served willingly in the LDS church in many capacities and enjoyed being a father to his young family of 3 girls and 3 boys: Ruth Ann Davenport, Elaine S. Harding, Julie Stephens, Conway G. Snyder, Mark Snyder and Michael Snyder. He loved summer vacations to Utah's National Parks and camping with the boy scouts. He also loved skiing, hunting and fishing. In 2005, Con and Fran served a Family History mission at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. He was steadfast and strong and enjoyed the continued blessings of service to his fellowmen. He became a full time care giver for Frances after she suffered a stroke in 2012 and the ensuing 18 months prior to her passing on November 20, 2013. Con was preceded in death by his older sisters Helen and Donna, his younger brothers Don and Kay, and is survived by all his children, sisters Shirley Pratt, Bonnie Bills, Jeanne Lindorff and Joy (Glen) Jensen, grandfather to 22 and great-grandfather to 23.
Friends and family are invited to attend the funeral service on Monday June 6, 12 Noon, at the Emigration 6th Ward, 589 18th Avenue in SLC. A viewing will be held Sunday June 5, from 6-8 PM at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple, SLC, UT and from 10:30 to 11:30 at the meetinghouse prior to the service on Monday.
