HELEN HOYMAN SNYDER

HELEN HOYMAN SNYDER of Ligonier, PA died December 22, 2018 at the age of 77. A licensed funeral director, she worked alongside her husband, the late Gordon O. Snyder in owning and operating Snyder Funeral Home Inc in Ligonier and the former L. Boyd Snyder Funeral Home Inc in Donegal for over 50 years. She continued to operate the funeral homes after her husband died in 2009 as well as the Laurel Highlands Crematory and Pet Cremation Service in Westmoreland. A 1960 graduate of the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, she became the first woman elected president of the Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong County Funeral Directors Association.