Mark J. Carter passed away on September 21, 2006 at the age of 84 due to complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Mark was born to Ezra G. and Pearl Johnson Carter on January 26, 1922 in Logan, Utah. His education was received at the Whittier Elementary, Logan High School and Utah State Agricultural College.

Mark has been an outdoorsman from his youth. He loved to hike and especially enjoyed Scouting activities and becoming an Eagle Scout. Some of his fondest childhood memories were of going fishing with his father.

Buying a small irrigated farm in Preston, Idaho when he was nineteen embarked him on a lifetime career as a livestock man.

He and Camille Beth Nuffer were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on September 1, 1943 and lived in Preston, Idaho for three years. In 1946, they moved to Bridger Canyon near Bozeman, Montana, where they had purchased a beautiful mountain ranch. They raised beef cattle and also ran an extensive logging operation.

Seventeen years later, they moved to Tensleep, Wyoming in the Big Horn Mountains where they largely raised their family.

In 1981, they moved to their Soda Springs Ranch along the Blackfoot River and lived there during the summers and wintered in Logan, Utah.

They purchased their present home in Smithfield in 1997.

Mark has served on school boards, hospital boards, as a bishop, high councilman, in the stake presidency and as a Patriarch in the Worland, Wyoming and Smithfield North stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He and Beth served as officiators in the Logan LDS Temple and filled a mission to the New York, New York North Mission.

His life has been one of service to his family, the communities he lived in and to the Church to which he belongs.

He is survived by his wife, Beth and the following children: Camille (David) Butler of Syracuse; Susan Allen of Cheney, Washington; James (Kari) Carter of Las Vegas, Nevada; Thomas (Cindy) Carter of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Richard (Susan) of Tensleep, Wyoming; Bruce (Marsha) Carter of Parker, Colorado; Pam (Ray) Reutzel of Nibley; Karen Carter of Post Falls, Idaho; Elizabeth (Shane) Smith of Providence; Laurel (Ross) Wilde of Wellsville; and Holly (Greg) Compton of Smithfield; fifty-three grandchildren and forty-five great grandchildren; two brothers: Grover (B.J) of Hood River, Oregon and Phillip (Violet) Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

Funeral services will be held at 12:00 noon Tuesday September 26, 2006 at the Smithfield 19th Ward LDS Chapel, 79 East 200 South. A viewing will be held from 10:30 to 11:30 prior to services. Interment will be in the Logan City Cemetery. Condolences may be extended to the family online at Nelson Funeral Home.