Arlevia Lucretia "Art" Anderson McNeill Snyder, 90, died on May 11, 2018. She attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 1944 to 1946. Later, she attended Florence State Teachers College, now the University of Alabama at Florence, and in 1958 received a Bachelor of Science degree focusing in chemistry and biology. In 1968, after receiving a National Science Teachers Association fellowship, she received a Master of Natural Science degree from ASU in Tempe. She taught fifth and sixth grades at Lookout Mountain Junior High School in St. Elmo, Tennessee, from 1958 to 1960. From 1960 to 1965, she taught elementary science on live TV for the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Public Schools during which time she worked closely with NASA and the space program. In 1986 she applied to be the first teacher in space on what became the ill-fated Challenger. After marrying World War II veteran and professor Ernest E. Snyder Jr. in 1965, she and her three children moved to Tempe, where Ernie was a professor at ASU. In the summers of 1963 and 1964 she was assistant to the director of the National Science Foundation, Earth Science Institute at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. While in Arizona, she taught elementary science in the Mesa Public Schools and Phoenix Country Day School. She taught science education part time at ASU. On a one-year leave of absence, she taught in Sacaton. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest, in 2003, four sisters, two half-brothers, a half-sister, a stepson and an infant great-grandson. She is survived by a sister, three children by her former marriage to Richard G. McNeill Sr., a stepson and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Graveside service for her and Ernie at 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 4, in the Escalante, Utah, cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to institutions Mrs. Snyder advocated for and supported: Florence Woman's Club, P.O. Box 1506, Florence, AZ 85132; Arizona Lions Vision Center (Florence Mobile Eye Unit), 3124 E. Roosevelt St., Suite 1, Phoenix, AZ 85008; New Multipurpose Escalante Community Center, Escalante City, Box 189, Escalante, UT 84726; Escalante Canyons Art Festival, Box 40, Escalante, UT 84726; Smile Train ; and Montana Trout Unlimited Memorial Float for Smith River Conservation . The Ernest E. and Arlevia A. Snyder Papers are held in the University Archives at Arizona State University Library.