She grew up in an apartment over the Kingston railroad station where her father, George Schryver, managed the restaurant and her mother Eleanor Young was a homemaker.
In 1922, she received a summer internship with notable New York landscape architect, Ellen Biddle Shipman, in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Schryver’s work draws on the design styles of Shipman and Platt, incorporating the Italian villa and English cottage garden influences that would remain evident throughout her career.
It introduced participants to the great historic monuments of Europe including country houses, villas, and their associated gardens.
[5] In 1932, they hired Clarence L. Smith, a prominent Salem architect with whom they would partner in several projects, to build their own house and personal garden on a portion of the original Lord home property.
During World War II, when commissions decreased, Schryver taught advanced landscape design at Oregon State College.
In 1984, when she died, the firm's professional papers were archived at the University of Oregon, home of the only state school of landscape architecture.