Stephanie Marie Carlson, age 35, entered the loving arms of her Savior Friday, July 16th, 2021 in Mesa, AZ.
She was born February 7th, 1986 in Mesa, AZ. Only 2 1/2 days old, she became the beautiful adopted daughter of Patty and Brian Carlson. When Stephanie was 5 years old, she became the big sister to Justin. Together they would become great friends and make a lifetime of memories.
Stephanie attended school in New Mexico and Idaho. She began sewing as a child and enjoyed making gifts for others. She loved horses and earned the nickname “horsey”. Stephanie loved to color, even as an adult. She also enjoyed doing puzzles. She was an amazing cook and could make elaborate desserts and meals. She also loved scrapbooking, quilting and looked forward to the holidays.
During her teenage years she continued growing in her talents and loved serving others. She was Junior Class President, Homecoming Queen, Cheerleader for 3 years and was involved in many other school activities and clubs. Stephanie loved music, choir and band. She moved to Alpine, Utah her senior year and graduated from Lone Peak High School having made new friends and memories. She continued her studies at BYU but soon discovered her real desires were to be out in the workplace. Stephanie was a workaholic and always stayed busy. Every employer loved her work ethic and personality. She became a part of their work family and was irreplaceable. She will be greatly missed!
Stephanie is survived by her loving parents, Brian Scott and Patricia Ann Carlson,
brother Justin Carlson and wife Marisa, her beloved dog and best friend, Gabriel Carlson (pit bull) and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. God be with you ‘til we meet again.
Funeral Service will start at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at The LDS Stake Center, 10036 E. Brown Rd., Mesa, AZ 85207. The visitation will start at 9:00 a.m..
Thank you so much for sharing your beloved Stephanie with us. She was such an Angel in this world and we loved her so much here at the office. She brought smiles to us on bad days with her catchphrases and stories. She was such a hard worker and always admired for her dedication and positive attitude even on difficult calls. During night shift she would always keep us laughing. “Oh my labra” I’m going to miss you so much Miss thing, if you already meant so much to me and everyone at the office I can’t imagine how your family feels. My condolences, I hope you find peace and comfort soon. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.
Sweet Stephanie, it’s hard to put into words how I feel and how greatly you’ll be missed. Things I’ll miss the most is seeing the glow of a room when you walk in and smile. You smile can truly light a room up. That bubbly personality can bring joy to all that know you. Truly know you. I so dearly love you and will miss you every day until we meet again.
I am so sorry to hear about sweet Stephanie. I looked forward in seeing her and have been missing her. My deepest condolences to her family and friends. I only had the privilege of knowing her and working with her for a short time, but she made a big mark on my life. Rest in peace my friend.
Stephanie, you will always be in my heart. I remember babysitting you while you mom and dad would go to work. You are a beautiful woman and forever be missed. I love you so much!!
“The golden moments in the stream of life of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know then when they are gone.” -George Elliot
Stephanie was one of life’s true angels; her goodness shone through even when she was having a bad day herself. Stephanie has definitely left an imprint on mine and many people’s hearts. Thank you for sharing your light Steph! You will never be forgotten xx
My sweet lovely friend,
I have so much to say and I don’t know where to begin. The last thing you said to me was “I love your sweet face” and I believe my response was “not as beautiful as you” that always melts my heart. Thank you for always being there for me. I will miss our late night chats and your silly jokes. I know our friendship was short but you gave me a life time of joy in my heart. Whenever I had a bad day you brought laughter to my heart. Thank you for the beautiful blue scarf. I will think of you everytime I wear it. I am still enjoying the coffee you gave me last month. You were right, it has enough caffeine in it to run a tractor. Your mom raised a wonderful person. Thank you for being my friend. When we meet again you better keep your promise and show me how to crochet. Rest easy my dear friend
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. It was a joy to work with Stephanie and I will never forget the warmth her smile brought to the office each and every day
My heart aches for the loss of our beautiful and beloved Stephanie. I had the great pleasure of being one of Stephanie’s supervisors and working besides her for the past several months. Stephanie was a very hard working employee and always went out of her way to help our team and offered a rare empathetic heart to our customers. Countless amounts of times Stephanie would help distressed customers out. She would comfort them and offer her heart to their situations and it would take my breath away on how caring she was to strangers.
I never saw or heard Stephanie complain, she was always a ball of sunshine that brought our office much laughter and happiness. When I would call Stephanie to take her breaks or ask her a question she would often make me laugh and say “thank you for for flying Southwest Airlines” or “Walmart, how can I help you?” She made me laugh and I enjoyed coming into work and seeing her smiling, beautiful face. She was witty and cared so much about all of her office peers. She always offered to buy people food and I had to force her to go on breaks because she would work non stop.
I was Stephanie’s supervisor and I taught her a lot about the job and helped coach her…But in reality, Stephanie helped teach me, coach me, about how valuable and precious life is. She reminded me to laugh and to endlessly love, be kind and compassionate to everyone.
Stephanie will be missed every single day and we will forever keep her spirit alive in and outside of the office. We will forever grieve her and honor her. Grief is the last act of love we give those who we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was and always will be great love.
Stephanie was such a great, nice person. I really enjoyed working with… she will be missed very much
Dear sweet perky lovely Stephanie You were always happy and smiling and your personality was contagious. I will miss you bumping into my chair when you walked by and giggling when I turned to you. What a cutie in that pink hoodie, you always made me smile. I am (we are all blessed) to have had the honor to know you. We will forever keep you in our thoughts, hearts and voices. We will fill our void with beautiful memories. We are heartbroken.
Stephanie was a force to be reckoned with. Her determination and compassionate nature was something that’s rare to find and was something I always admired about her. Words can’t describe her luminous spirit that could brighten the darkest corners. She was truly a remarkable person and will be missed.
Stephanie, you were a ball of light. Always came to work in with a smile on your face, always talking to anyone and everyone. I don’t think there was a single person that didn’t have a smile or laugh when talking to you. I remember when you and I worked a late night, I was just sitting at my desk and then I heard a “hi friend” I looked around and then saw you sticking your head in the isle and we struck up a conversation. We are all going to be missing that piece of sunshine that you brought into our lives. I’m going to miss you tremendously. Keep watch over us Stephanie.
Stephanie Babe, i am at such a loss for words. Never in a million years did I expect this to happen. I will never forget all the amazing memories we shared together and I will cherish them in my heart till the day we see each other again. I have not stopped crying since i talked to mom earlier and i still can’t. I have lost a lot of friends and all their deaths were hard to deal with, but I always had you to help get me through those dark times. Losing you though is by far the hardest death I have ever had to deal with. I would give anything just to have one more conversation with you, or one more hug from you. We always would talk about our future and working to have enough money to buy a little cabin in the middle of nowhere that was right on a good size pond with fish in it, and spend the rest of our lives listening to the serenity of Mother Nature and just enjoying each other company and be in complete happiness with one another. It was hard realizing that the dream of ours won’t come true in this life,, but it will in the next. Until then I am going to spend everyday the way you always asked me to and that was to take care of myself and stay away from all the bad things that never did any good for me. I love you with all my heart sweetheart and I will see you soon. Thank you for all the memories and being such an amazing woman, you were one in a million and I was the luckiest guy ever to Find that one in a million, just took me some time to get the courage to approach you and ask you out on a first date
. But since that first date the one things that has stayed consistent is our relationship and the love that we had for one another. Rest easy gorgeous, I’m going to miss you so much.