Mark Colvin Cluff

January 18, 1938 - June 17, 2020

Mark Colvin Cluff passed away June 17, 2020 at home after a brief illness. He was born January 18, 1938 in Provo, Utah to Colvin Sterling and Melba Walker Cluff. He grew up in the Pleasant View area of Provo and worked at his father’s grocery store and feed mill. He attended the Page School and Lincoln High School. Mark married Patricia Kay Madsen on August 8, 1956 in the Salt Lake Temple. They were married for 62 years before Pat passed away in September of 2018. They had five children and raised their family in Utah and Idaho. Mark was a master cabinet maker and finish carpenter and could make an ordinary piece of wood into something extraordinary. When he and Pat were first married, he worked for Wes Kofford building cabinets. At that time, he made 75 cents an hour. He worked in the BYU Carpenter Shop for many years, then moved into construction as a foreman and eventually as a resident engineer. Mark was a hard worker, and he instilled his work ethic in his children. Mark and Pat were temple workers in the St. George, Las Vegas, Mount Timpanogos Temples, a service they both dearly loved. As a family, we are deeply grateful to the home health and hospice workers, Kathy, Ian, Carrie, Ann, and Jared, as well as all the doctors and nurses at the hospital who took such great care of our Dad. Mark was preceded in death by his wife, Pat, his parents, brothers Lynn and Lloyd, granddaughter Erika, and his grandson, Mitchell. He is survived by his children, Becky and Doug Olsen of Pleasant Grove, Utah, Kyle and Amy of DeBeque, Colorado, David of Pleasant Grove, Judy and Garry Hicks of Reno, Nevada, Gerald and BJ of Provo, Utah, and Verna Begay of Taylor, Arizona, his brother Rulon (Joye) of Provo, Utah, and sister Carol (Riley) Cutler of Boise, Idaho, and sisters-in-law Janet of San Francisco, California, and Pat of Springdale, Utah, 28 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren. We are grateful to know that our Mom and Dad are together again, never to be separated, and that he is with his beloved parents and brothers. What a great reunion it must be! We will miss his laugh, his pumpkin pies and banana bread, and his smile. Go rest high on that mountain, ‘Cause son, your work on earth is done. Go to heaven a-shoutin' Love for the Father and the Son. Graveside Services will be held Saturday, June 20th, at 11:30 am, at the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Utah Valley Mortuary.