A life well lived…
Sylvia “Sonya” Krantz joined her heavenly family Sunday, June 12, 2022. She was 84 years old at the time of her passing. She passed away of natural causes in her family home. She was born April 8, 1938, in her parents’ home in Tooele, Utah. 
She is the daughter of George M. McLaws and LaFern Henry McLaws. She has one surviving sister Janet Bevan. She was proceeded in death by sisters Ruth Davis Massey, Jean Irl Davis, Lousie Croft, Gael Glaser; and one brother George Bradley. She married James “Jim” Krantz on March 16, 1963, in the Little Chapel of the West, in Las Vegas, Nevada. They had one daughter Paulla (Travis Carlisle). She was later divorced. She has one grandson Zayden Carlisle, and many nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly.
She grew up in Tooele’s golden years where the “cool kids” dragged Main Street in their hot rods and hung out at Al’s Drive In. In her early life, she was proud to be a member of the high school’s Pep Club and graduated from Tooele High School in 1956. Her first teenage job was working in the kitchen at the Tooele hospital to help provide food and money for her family. She was a master switchboard operator for Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, and no one could scoop ice cream like her at Baker’s Ice Cream. She was a contestant in the 1959 Tooele National Guard Queen Contest. In the years following, she was employed by many of the branches of the military including Hill Air Force Base, Dugway Proving Ground, and she retired from Tooele Army Depot where she earned many awards for improving processes and productivity.
For fun, she loved to travel and have adventures. Some of her biggest and most memorable trips were to California (to see the ocean for the first time with her sister Janet), Hawaii, Washington D.C., Alaska, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. She always enjoyed giving the boys a run for their money by challenging their skills at deer hunting, trap shooting, water skiing and snow skiing. She loved her time on the water boating and she always managed to hook into the biggest fish of the day. She loved being pen pals with her sisters who lived out of town, going on long walks, talking with neighbors, and spending time enjoying her rose garden and flowers.
Her many talents included dancing, crocheting items for her family members, teaching the lost art of tatting, and collecting new recipes and trying them out on her family. Her pies were famous and were always sought after by friends and family for the holidays, special occasions or for payment for services for her.
Loving and spending time with her grandson became her most important and favorite hobby. She adored him and spent every moment she could with him in her later life.
She was a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she fulfilled many callings.
Her services will be held at Tate Mortuary, 110 S. Main St., Tooele, Utah, Saturday, June 18, 2022. Viewing will be from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Services begin at 11 a.m. Internment will be in the Tooele City Cemetery.
A very special “Thank you” goes out to all our family, friends, neighbors, and hospice workers who helped make her last year happy, comfortable, and peaceful.
Remember to dance, laugh out loud (like she did), live life to the fullest, love with all your heart and above all else, forgive, be humble and love God and all his teachings.