- Date Of Death: January 9, 2018
- State: Idaho
Mark Taylor Dayton, 72, passed away Jan. 9, 2018 at his home in Bennington, surrounded by family following a lingering illness associated with liver failure.
Mark was born June 18, 1945 in Salt Lake City, UT to S. Reed Dayton and Lois Taylor Dayton of Cokeville, WY. The sixth of eight children, he grew up on the family ranch in Cokeville where he was taught to work and to cherish family values. He attended school there and was a 1964 graduate of Cokeville High School. He served a two year LDS mission to the Gulf States Mission from 1964 to 1966. When he returned he attended Ricks College in Rexburg, ID. He then went to Utah Technical College at Provo, UT where he received his degree in Auto Mechanics in 1969. He was employed in many industrial jobs as well as ranching and farming in Cokeville and the Bear Lake Valley.
He married Eve Crane Dayton in the Logan LDS Temple March 24, 1971.
