Joyce...the last 53 years in a nutshell!

That's me...Cynthia Joyce Snyder, born in Taft Ca, Oct. 12, 1946
to Claire Dugas Snyder and Dick Snyder!
Here is their wedding picture...I was the last of four children, as daddy died when I was only one and a half of lung cancer.

This the only picture that I have of daddy and me.  I am one.  He passed away 6 months later.

When I was six years old, our mother found a WONDERFUL man to be our step-dad....Skip!

Skip had two sons about the same age as my brothers. We combined famlies and had  a wonderful family life.
This picture was taken in 1997, before our mother passed away.

Me, sister Rosalie, step-bro Richard, mom with brother Dick behind her, my step-dad, Skip, step-bro Orv and brother Joe in the foreground.

Right after graduating from Taft Union High School, I married my high school sweetheart, Jim Fleckenstein.  We were only married for 12 years, but we got three precious children.
Below you will see them as little ones, in 1971 and recent pictures of them.

Jennifer, Judy and Jimmy (fresh out of the tub!) 1971

Jim with wife, Julie

FAMILIES
ARE
FOREVER

Judy with husband, Darren

Jennifer with youngest son, Ricky (hubby working that day)

JIMMY'S FAMILY

Jeff, Jimmy, Jeremy, Julie and Jeanette
March 2000

JUDY'S FAMILY

Me, daughter Judy and Jimmy's wife, Julie..waiting for Jennifer's last one to be born...Dec. 2, 1999  Sydnee!

Jennifer's RICKY...very dramatic...opening a gift!

Jennifer's SYDNEE

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

I became mommy to April (l) and Shelly (r) when they were two.  There brother Steven was three (not pictured).  Here is my husband John with his girls and four of his seven grandchildren...they're mine too!