Audrey Martin McLaws

Our family matriarch, Audrey Martin McLaws returned to her Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ on March 31, 2016, at 101 years of age. She was born Feb. 9, 1915, in Tooele, Utah to Jennie Sorensen and George Wayne Martin, both Norwegian immigrants. Audrey was the sixth of seven siblings. She lived in Tooele for most of her life and attended local schools before going to college at Utah State and living in California for a short time. She married Ross Fullmer McLaws on April 7, 1938, and they were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They raised their two sons Paul and Garrie in Tooele. Audrey worked at Sperry Univac and also at the Tooele Army Depot for many years. Audrey is preceded in death by both of her parents; all of her siblings; her husband; her son Paul and a granddaughter. She is survived by her son Garrie (Marie); her daughter-in-law Karen; five grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Burial was in the Tooele City Cemetery after a graveside family service held on April 2, 2016. Our special thanks to those who lovingly cared for her in her later years, the von Weller family who helped her to stay in her home for additional years, the employees at Heart and Home (formerly Beehive Homes) in Centerville, Utah and the hospice caregivers.