Carma Hoyt

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    Today I lost my best friend, my confidant, my partner in crime, my Mother...  my shattered heart will never forget all the laughter, all the love.
    Carma Fausett Hoyt, was born April 25, 1938 in Ioka, Utah to Issac Romanzo “Dick” and Mildred Washburn Fausett. She passed away of natural causes December 8, 2024, at home surrounded by love.
    As the oldest of ten siblings, Carma learned the benefits of hard work growing up on their 200-acre farm in Upalco, Utah, where she tended her younger siblings, worked in the fields, orchards, and gardens, preserved crops and raised livestock. Her family was known for raising and selling thousands of the best tomatoes in the country every year.
    She learned to ride a horse before she could walk and could shoot farther and straighter than most. Her inquisitive mind and thousands of questions drove adults to distraction at times, but with her curiosity, determination and a strong competition with her brother Richard, she succeeded at anything she set her mind to. She attended school in Altamont, Utah and had many fond memories of a happy childhood growing up with her brothers and sisters. Richard was her competitor and Sylvia her best friend.
    Carma married her first sweetheart, LeRoy H. Hayes in 1954. Tragically, she lost him eight months later in a freezing blizzard and then lost their only child Roy Junior two weeks later at birth.
    She met her second husband Jewel L.B. Hoyt while working at Bill and Eva’s café.  He came in for breakfast, grimy and smelling of diesel fumes after driving truck.  He kept coming back and they married December 5, 1955.  Over 54 years of marriage, they had many adventures, the biggest of which was raising three sons and a daughter.
Jewel was a proud veteran and had many skills. He could drive anything on wheels, was a great mechanic, welder, handyman, hunter and fisherman. He always provided for his family and they never went without.  He eventually retired from Kennecott Copper Mine as a heavy equipment mechanic working on their monster sized trucks. Jewel was not only Carma's love, but her friend and partner in all things.
    A Roosevelt Standard article was written in the 60's about Carma, titled "Bringing Home the Bacon".  The article showed a picture of her loading a buck she had shot off the side of the road into the back of her station wagon, with her young kids watching from the car. She could out work, out fish and out hunt most men and nothing pleased her more!
    After moving from the Uintah Basin to the big city of Salt Lake, Carma worked many types of jobs in the culinary business, including feeding 1,500 people a day working for the Columbus Community School. For many years she ran the Redwood Cheer, a "full service" service station and often bested her male counterparts with her knowledge of vehicles, mechanics and dirty jokes.
    Carma was an amazing artist in multiple mediums. Her oil paintings won awards. Her handmade quilts were truly works of art.  She always had the prettiest yard in the neighborhood and her home was always colorful and stylish. She was not only a strong, beautiful woman, but an awesome mother, a fantastic cook and the queen of yard sales! She could put together an amazing stew from nothing and serve dozens of hunters that would show up out of nowhere at their elk hunt camp site, most of them were family, who said they could smell her coffee from miles away. We can all attest to her homemade bread, hot scones and pies from scratch!  
    Mom and dad moved back to the Uintah Basin after retiring and enjoyed hunting, fishing and being with family.  After dad passed away in 2009, mom became my travel partner and confidant. We enjoyed many years of fun, laughter and love.
    I want to thank our dear friends, "Carma's Crew" for your love, compassion, and inclusion. Thanks for piloting our adventures and including us in the fun. You helped make the last three years of both our lives full of laughter, adventure and amazing memories.  She loved you all!
    "I LOVE YOU MOM," "I LOVE YOU  MORE," "IMPOSSIBLE!"  
    She is survived by children, Nicholas (Heather) Hoyt, Victoria (Kit) Tucker, Chris (Colleen) Hoyt; grandchildren, Dustin (Vickie) Tucker, Amber (Brandt) Draper, Amy (Joe) Honeycutt, Sara (Jerry) Holfeltz, Trevor (Jessica) Hoyt, Whitney (Ty) Johnson, Samuel Hoyt; siblings, Richard Fausett, Sylvia Ivie, Tom (Louise) Fausett, Bob (Carrie) Fausett, Shirley (Ron) Miles, Peggy (Delbert) Larsen, Danny (Devon) Fausett, Debbie (Glade) Mitchell; and a multitude of great-grandchildren... she wants you to know that Grandma-Great loved you all!
    She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands,  Leroy Hayes, Jewel Hoyt; sons, Roy Junior Hayes, Roderick James Hoyt; and brother, Eugene Fausett.
    Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM at the Altamont Stake Center.  A viewing will be held that morning at the church from 10:30 - 11:45 AM.  
    Burial will be in the Upalco Cemetery.