Julie Christine Pater Doyle 7/7/1960—12/14/2021 Julie Christine Pater Doyle, 61, passed away Tuesday, December 14, 2021, at 12:37 pm in her home in Orem, Utah, of acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. Chris, as she was known by family and friends, was born on July 7, 1960 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Hendrik Pater and Sherie LaRene Jones Pater. Chris grew up in the Millcreek and Olympus Cove areas of Salt Lake City, and graduated from Skyline High School in 1978. Chris attended Utah State University (Logan, Utah) in 1978-1979, where she met her future husband, Timothy Edwin Doyle (Tim), in a poetry class. In the spring of 1980, she participated in a Brigham Young University study abroad program in Europe. Upon returning to Utah, she worked as a secretary at an engineering company and as a display artist at Sears in Murray, Utah. In 1982, Chris moved to Pocatello, Idaho, to work at Sears and to be closer to Tim, who was now a scientist at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. On May 14, 1983, Chris and Tim were married in Salt Lake City at the McKune Mansion. In 1984, Chris and Tim moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho, and bought their first home together. In Idaho Falls, Chris worked as a display artist for Sears and as a visual merchandising manager for ZCMI. Chris and Tim enjoyed the outdoors in Idaho, and would go camping, hiking, and river rafting in the Yellowstone-Grand Teton area. In 1988, Chris and Tim returned to Logan, Utah, to further their education at Utah State University. In 1992, Chris graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design, and started her own interior design company, J. C. Doyle Interior Design, LLC. In 1993, Chris and Tim built their second home in Pleasant View, Utah, where they lived an idyllic life for 20 years surrounded by orchards, pastures, mountains, beautiful wild places, and magnificent vistas. During this time, Chris's business thrived with interior design projects for both residential homes and commercial businesses. Her work included designing office and work spaces for businesses such as Kimberly-Clark, Gold's Gym, and Central Bank of Utah. She also provided interior designs for medical clinics and a model home in Japan. Chris loved life, and often liked to sing upbeat tunes such as "I Think I Love You" with David Cassidy or "Twist and Shout" with the Beatles. Having grown up in the 70s, she liked classical guitar, John Denver, and Neil Diamond. In the 1980s, she loved to go dancing with her husband. Chris was a determined fighter, and incredibly defied all odds of medical science. In 1995, she was diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer and given only 16 months to live, and yet she survived and thrived for another 26 years. She courageously flew back to Boston with Tim for a radical surgery where her left lung and diaphragm were removed, and she was given a more accurate diagnosis for her cancer. She completed her cancer treatments at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City and McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, and was cancer free in 1997. She again faced cancer in 2003, breast cancer, and again was cancer free in a few years. Throughout this time, Chris stayed active, pursuing her work in interior design and hiking in the foothills of North Ogden and Ogden Valley. Ogden Valley was a very special place to Chris and Tim, where they often hiked up in North Fork Park. There, they would often see moose, deer, beaver, owls, and hawks. Chris had an amazing ability to quietly approach and stand perfectly still next to animals such as deer, beaver, and hawks. In 2014, Chris and Tim moved to Orem, Utah, where Chris continued her interior design work. Chris survived a stroke in 2015 and another one in 2017. Again, Chris defied the odds by surviving the strokes with no paralysis and with only mild setbacks to her walking and breathing. After her strokes, Chris continued to walk with Tim by the Provo River, enjoying the sounds of the rushing water, the changing colors of the trees through the seasons, and the birds and other animals she would see. She especially delighted in watching Downy woodpeckers feed their chicks through their chiseled holes in tree trunks and branches. As always, she stayed cheerful, optimistic, and grateful for life. She always said that she was "the luckiest girl in the world." Chris loved to travel, and from 2013 to 2016 she accompanied Tim and his research students from Utah Valley University (Orem, Utah) to San Francisco, California; Vienna, Austria; Davos, Switzerland; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Honolulu, Hawaii. On all of these trips, Chris would take students with her on sightseeing trips, and she invariably played the role of den mother for the students, bringing a new dimension of experience and joy to the students' travels. Chris had several nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews, and "Aunt Chris" played a big, loving role in all of their lives. Chris is survived by her husband, Timothy Edwin Doyle of Orem, Utah, and by her brother Craig Anthony (Lisa Ashman) Pater of Salt Lake City, Utah. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Brian Christopher Pater. A memorial service is planned for the burial of Chris's ashes this spring, at Eastlawn Memorial Cemetery above the Provo River where she enjoyed taking walks. A date and time will be set in the future.