Kristy Silver Phillips age 65 died September 9, 2019, in Provo, Utah, of causes related to ALS.  Kristy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 28, 1953, the oldest of four daughters born to Roy Richards Silver and LaRae Weight Silver.  Her sisters are Laurie (Harold) Pergler, Sherilyn (Gregory) Sorensen, and Melinda (Moises) Silver.  Kristy was raised in Salt Lake City (Olympus High) and was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She was an attorney, author, and mother who enjoyed travel and genealogy. Kristy married her best friend, Lee Revell Phillips, in the Salt Lake Temple on May 3, 1973. They were blessed with three children: Lee Revell (Amy Heal) Phillips, David Van (Cherilyn Stubbs) Phillips and Marec Phillips Cavender.  She loved being a grandmother to her 10 grandchildren: Isaak, Adalynn, Elleny, and Orrin Phillips, Mary and Eli Phillips, and Aliza, Foster, Arwen and Esher Cavender.  Funeral services will be held at the Hillside Chapel 1960 N. 1500 E. Provo on September 21 at 11 am. Viewings will be at the Chapel Friday night 6-8 pm and Saturday 9:30-10:30 am. Things You May Not Know About Kristy (See photo gallery for pictures) Kristy did everything for her family and her Savior. Lee and Kristy did absolutely everything together. Only death has separated them. You know all that. Look at things you probably didn't know about Kristy. She served as a uniformed Utah County deputy sheriff. She and Lee did the physical training every morning so she could pass the sheriff's academy training – best shape Lee has ever been in. Lee and the kids walked around the house with their hands in their pockets, because if she caught your hand she would practice her takedown moves. One year she had the best arrest record in her division. She was caught in Hawaii without shelter in her swimsuit during a raging snow storm on the summit of Mauna Kea and almost passed out from the thin air. Marec did pass out. She has hiked seven miles of the Kalalau Trail along the Na Pali Coast of the island of Kauai. She was a certified scuba diver. Her favorite dive was the wall at Molokini Crater on Maui. The only way she got motion sick was on a dive under water. Lee gets motion sick everywhere else. On one of their first dates they went to Lagoon, and she talked him into going on the tilt-a-whirl. He threw up all over her, and after that she believed he got motion sick easily. She was known as Tangles among BYU's Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, because she spent a week in Alaska fishing on the Kenai with them. She out fished everyone, but she tended to get her line tangled with other lines in the arm to arm combat fishing. Thus, the name Tangles. She denies that she ever tangled anyone's line. She would go salmon fishing in Alaska every summer for over a decade. She liked clam digging. Kristy escaped being killed on August 8, 1993, by a couple of hours when the brand new Hilton Tower on Guam collapsed. It was brought down by an earthquake. She left the hotel before she was scheduled to leave. Had she stayed on her schedule she and Lee would have been killed. They were the only occupants in the new unfinished tower, having been put in the just finished penthouse. The tower was totally unoccupied at the time it fell, so nobody was hurt. Kristy loved exploring the Big Island. She often hiked out to see Kilauea and the lava flow into the ocean. Kristy and Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, had a real relationship. She even learned the hard way about the curse of Pele. The week after Lee and Kristy were married (1973), they bought a car in Brussels. They paid for the car by mounting thousands of butterflies and selling them. Kristy could mount over 150 butterflies an hour. They drove the car down to Syria and meticulously followed all of the missions of the apostle Paul visiting every city he was reported to have visited – except the islands. Kristy slept in an ancient camel stable on the Syrian/Turkish border. The common bathroom was a hole in the floor of a small room. Having been used for literally a hundred years with no cleaning, it smelled so bad Kristy would pee in a cup, run by the room, and throw in the cup. The car was shipped back to the US and they used it for over 30 years. Kristy was nearly shot at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan to Israel in 1976. She had camera lenses in buckskin bags she had made. When security saw the unknown bags, they all trained their machine guns on her, took cover, and made her open the bags. Then they stripped searched her and carefully searched her luggage. She had a package of Oreos. They took each Oreo apart and put it back together. She didn't eat the Oreos. She gave them to Paul Sybrowsky, who was desperate after a two year Oreo fast. Every Sunday she set the table with formal plates, silver, and goblets. She had all the family to Sunday dinner. She taught the grandchildren how to set a formal table and eat a formal dinner . The fare was often roast beef, potatoes and gravy, green beans, and dessert. Kristy ate dinner several times on the CN Tower in Toronto. She liked the Canadian side of Niagara Falls better than the US side. She caught very large termites in the Victoria Island forest, preserved them in alcohol and brought them back for Marec's school assignment. Over her lifetime, Kristy watched the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper recede almost 1500 feet. One of the best trips she took with Lee was the year before her diagnosis with ALS (2013). They made a week's circle trip from Calgary through Banff and Jasper to Edmonton and back to Calgary. She waded way out into the shallow warm lake north of Jasper. She has loved Lake Louise and has been drawn there many times. She represented BYU in the National College Model UN in New York City. She and Lee on one of their first outings sat on the Utah Model UN Security Council at the University of Utah as the sole representatives of France. The irony was Kristy's school, Olympus High School, represented the African nation of Malawi. The question was, how did they get to represent France, when Lee got into the conference on a press pass? She co-wrote three books, Protecting Your Financial Future , and Superhighway to Wealth , which has been translated into a number of languages. She served on the Attorney General's task force for identity theft and co-wrote the course Winning the Identity Theft War . For 2 weeks, she lived in a fale (grass hut without walls) in a very small village in the rainforest on the island of Savai'i Samoa.  She slept on the crushed coral floor, drank coconut milk for water, and ate whatever the forest or ocean produced.  There was no water, electricity, sewer, or any other amenities.  She liked breadfruit and palusami. She was admitted as a United States Supreme Court Counselor on May 11, 1993. She hit it off with Justice Clarence Thomas and spent over 30 minutes talking to him. She was a law clerk for Judge Ray Harding, Sr. of the Utah Fourth District. She liked kimchee, as long as it was served in Korea. She sewed all of her family's clothes for the first 10 years of her marriage. That included Lee's suits, for which she won several awards. She broke an arm and a leg. She believed they were the early results of ALS, almost 10 years before her actual diagnosis. She was diagnosed with ALS July 22, 2014, by Dr. Robert G. Larson in the San Francisco Forbes Norris MDA/ALS Research and Treatment Center. Her care was transferred from Dr. Larson, maybe the world's leading expert in ALS, in San Francisco to Dr. Summer Gibson at the University of Utah ALS Clinic which is the designated ALS center for patients in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. ALS strikes 1 in 120,000 people in the US. Average time to death after diagnosis is about 2 years. Kristy was over 5 years. (She was always better than average.) There is no treatment. When she was diagnosed, she and Lee cried. Dr. Larson was very kind. She took beginning swimming lessons in her late 30s, because Lee wouldn't let her go on a week-long private river run down the Green River Desolation Canyon until she could swim. The Paul Cox, Dave Webb, and Lee Phillips families made the trip without any guides. Paul and Dave had the equipment and skill. Kristy volunteered for the 2002 Olympics. She ended up in security, because of her prior training. The first morning she was deployed at 5 AM in Soldier's Hollow. She froze! Frugal Kristy came back that night and went to the sporting goods store. The simple statement was, "Sell me anything that will keep me warm." For a while, she guarded Mitt Romney. She spoke and read Greek well enough to read the Bible in its original Greek text. One of Kristy's favorite sports was bargaining in the bazaars of the Middle East. Throughout her life, she could make a dollar stretch further than anyone else. She rode a horse into Petra and spent a day exploring it in its entirety. She has visited 19 of the 28 EU member countries, plus several countries on the European continent that are not EU members. She flew over 1 million miles. She interviewed corn farmers until she learned to grow 8 foot high corn with foot long ears in her garden. She canned the corn the family didn't eat in the season. Kristy canned much of the family food, including meats and fish. Kristy has mounted over 50,000 butterflies. She gained a reputation of trust and compassion with expectant unwed mothers in Utah County. Through word of mouth, the mothers would come and offer their babies for her to place for adoption. She got a lot of joy out of doing adoptions. She climbed the steps of the Eiffel Tower, because she wanted to see Paris from the top, and she was too cheap to pay the exorbitant price for an elevator ticket. She rode a covered wagon and camped across Wyoming as part of the 1997 reenactment of the Latter-day Saints' trek west. She owns the handwritten copy of A Marvelous Work and a Wonder which was given by Uncle LeGrand Richards to her father when he was on his mission. For her senior project in history, she compared it word for word with the final printed version. There is a big difference. She started to figure out why there was a difference and researched the issue until she was told to leave it alone. She loved her grandchildren. (You already knew that, but it can't be overstated.) She was the 3 rd runner up for the Days of 47 royalty. She entered the pageant on a whim her senior year of high school. Lee wasn't happy when he was told he would be at the event until about noon and they finally ended at about midnight. Plus, the queen and two attendants have to be single the year of their reign. It's a good thing she was third runner up, because Lee wasn't going to wait to get married. She loved Disney World and took all of her grandkids there many times. She wrote over 100 published legal articles and blogs. Kristy made the trip to Hawaii over 50 times and has explored almost every road on every island. She enjoyed the Halloween parade on Kalakaua Avenue, which she participated in three times. She took surfing lessons on Waikiki Beach on her actual 50 th birthday. Lee got motion sick on the waves, so Kristy got a double lesson. She went on over 25 cruises, even though she hated ships, and Lee always got sea sick. Once she was diagnosed, she took the two oldest granddaughters on a week-long cruise. It was really nice. Yes, Lee worked on the cruise. He always says, "They have to pay me a lot of money to get me on a ship." She ate a very formal (black tie and evening gown) dinner with Sue in Chicago looking over her shoulder. If Sue had drooled it would have dropped directly into Kristy's soup bowl. She climbed Angel's Landing in Zion   National Park and came down the back side rappelling over the cliffs. By lunch she had so much adrenalin flowing that the food went down and came back up. She didn't sleep that night. She also rappelled Pine Creek in full wetsuit. On the last rappel, she even got up courage (was pushed over the edge) to do the 100 foot rappel through the air into the river pool below. A group of Japanese tourists were very stunned when she and Lee came up over the bank of the road at the turnout just below the tunnel wearing full wetsuits with all their harnesses and rappelling gear. Since 2003, her legal residence has been 4822 Ocean Blvd. Siesta Key, FL. Siesta Beach is rated the best beach in the United States, including Hawaii and Virgin Islands. Kristy and Lee loved beaches. Some of their favorites include Solomon Beach, St Johns; Coki Beach and Magens Bay, St. Thomas; Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman; Waikiki, Hanauma Bay, Kailua, Kahekili, Hawaii; and others. Warm, blue water and nice sand. The feel of the sand and the water. She said she would miss them a lot. We already miss her a lot! The sand and the water will never feel the same again for Lee.