Sylvia Jean Carter of Roy, Utah passed away on March 9, 2025.

Sylvia was born on February 21, 1945 and was the eldest child of Everett Vaughn Carter and Mary Ellen Stephens Carter. Sylvia was born while Everett was across the world serving in the Navy in the South Pacific. He didn't meet her until he was able to come home and bless her when a few months old.

Sylvia grew up in South Ogden, Utah. She attended Burch Creek Elementary and South Ogden Jr High. She attended Bonneville High School starting there the year that it was opened. Later Bonneville would became a very integral part of her life. Sylvia attended Weber State College. She graduated with a degree in English and History and a minor in Art.

Sylvia was a master teacher. She taught at North Davis Jr High, Mount Ogden Jr High, T.H. Bell Jr High and finished her career at Bonneville High School, teaching there for 24 years. She loved being an educator and expected much from her students. She expected them to be engaged, and curious, and to put effort into their subjects. She wouldn't let them get by with easy, useless lessons. This earned her the nickname "Sargent Carter" at school. She taught creatively, always developing new, unique ways to reach the students.

She loved teaching English but later in her career found a passion teaching history. She taught Utah History, US History and World History. She loved helping students learn from different times and different cultures. She wanted them to value experiences different than their own. She participated in taking students on different trips to experience the world. Her favorites were several student trips to Washington DC and her many years when she took students to Mexico. She also was a talented artist and loved the few years that she also taught art at Bonneville. Sylvia pursued a Masters Degree in right brain learning from BYU and took a sabbatical for a year from her teaching to learn how the creative side of the brain works.

Sylvia used her teaching skills throughout her life. She tutored children. She taught primary classes. She taught classes on creativity and right brain learning techniques. She taught creative writing classes. She helped neighbors and nieces and nephews and was always sharing her knowledge. She served as the gospel doctrine teacher in her ward for many years. She spent countless hours preparing for those classes. Mostly, she taught everyone throughout her life by her example of being a life-long learner.

Sylvia loved to read and read voraciously. She was often reading several books at once . You could always count on a recommendation for the best books and she knew about almost any subject. She didn't like reading books electronically, you had to have a paper copy. She also shared her love of books with young and old. When hearing of Sylvia's passing a 4 year old great niece commented "But now who will give us books for Christmas". Sylvia always bought her books. She wanted to be able to mark them up and write comments in the margins. She was also a talented writer and poet.

Sylvia loved nature. After she retired she took up birding and spent many hours looking for and observing birds. She kept a life list that probably numbered in the 400s. She loved finding a rare bird but found just as much joy in watching the chickadees and gold finches in her yard.

Sylvia loved to travel. After she retired, her goal was to visit all 7 continents. She accomplished this by visiting Europe, Australia and the South Sea islands, Venezuela and Argentina, South Africa and Dubai ( which she said counted as it was part of Asia Minor). Last of all she went on a cruise to Antarctica with her dear friends, especially enjoying the albatross and penguins. When traveling she loved to connect with the people and the culture, wanting to experience it all. Even though she traveled throughout the world one of her favorite places was Yellowstone. She had many fond memories of trips there throughout her life.

Sylvia loved family history. She loved learning about our ancestors. She also helped others by doing some research for them. In her later life she did a lot of indexing. She was excited that on the day before her 80th birthday she had reached a milestone, 500,000 records indexed.

Sylvia was very thoughtful. She gave the most thoughtful gifts to everyone. She remembered everyone's birthday and anniversary. She made friends wherever she went and endeared herself to so many. We want to thank all of her dear friends who throughout her life, have blessed her as she blessed them. Special thanks to her wonderful neighbors James and Stephanie who helped her daily. She loved you all.

Sylvia was preceded in death by her parents, one sister Mary, and a nephew Kevin Carter. She is survived by her siblings Stephen Carter (Lorraine) St. George, Utah; Dale Carter (Debbie) Liberty, Utah; Charmain Green (Tim) West Jordan, Utah; Alicia Baxter (Steve) West Point,Utah; Miriam Sheffield (Craig) Kaysville, Utah. She is also survived by 22 nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be held at Leavitt's Aultorest Mortuary on March 17, 2025 at 10 am. Viewing will be held at the mortuary Sunday March 16, 2025 from 5-7 pm or Monday Mar 17 from 9-10am before the services.