Michael McClure

Michael Roy McClure, passed peacefully on June 6, 2024, in his home and surrounded by family at the age of 77.

Mike led a full life.   He was born in Tulsa Oklahoma on February 24, 1947, to William Roy and Lucille McClure. He lived in Tulsa until he was 12 at which time his family bought a dairy farm in Collinsville, OK where he learned the value of hard work. That lesson carried throughout his life as he worked hard in everything he did.

In high school Mike played Oklahoma-style football and baseball.  He graduated from Collinsville High School in 1965 and always talked fondly of his classmates and friends. His tenacity, quickness, and strength on the football field earned him a scholarship to play at Connors State College in Oklahoma where he also tried his hand at Golden Glove boxing.  Summers he would work on “the pipeline” that brought natural gas to communities throughout the country and because of this, he got to see a lot of the nation.  Mike’s stories from college and the pipeline always had him and his family laughing as he talked about the adventures, pranks, and mishaps he had with his buddies.   

Mike was called to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Hill Cumorah Mission. Here he developed a love for Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ that he shared with all who knew him.  As a missionary he was able to be a cast member in the Hill Cumorah pageant and his kids loved hearing him talk about his experience of playing a Gadianton Robber.  

After his mission Mike came to BYU.  He often talked about feeling confined by the mountains, but it didn’t take him long to grow to love them.  He met his wife, Annette at BYU and they were sealed in the Idaho Falls Temple on September 11, 1969.  Together they had 5 children.  His greatest pleasure in life came from being surrounded by his family.

In 1975, Mike and Annette built a home and made a small farm west of Lehi.  Here they spent most of their lives together raising their children, working the farm, growing a large garden and raising all the usual farm animals.

As a profession Mike worked in the printing industry doing a little of everything from pre-press to bindery, at one point owning his own printing business in Orem.   When work allowed him to play, he loved to be in the outdoors hunting, fishing, riding horses, or camping.  He always provided for his family with the fish and game he brought home from his outdoor excursions.  Because he loved the outdoors, he eventually owned a fishing/hunting guide service in the Wind Rivers of Wyoming which allowed him to be on his horses and lead pack horses and people through the beauty God had created.

From his time on the pipeline, he developed a love of the country that he wanted to instill in his children.  He took them on many road trips including one across the country and back again, visiting as many states as they could.  He took them camping as much as possible and they explored almost every road, fished many lakes and streams, and hunted throughout Utah.  He was also an avid Oklahoma University football fan, watching and armchair coaching every game. He flew the OU flag very proudly.

Mike served God all throughout his life.  He was an excellent gospel teacher and speaker.  His testimony was always strong, and he had a gift of conveying that testimony to those who heard it.  He became a member of the Seventy at twenty-seven, served as ward clerk, teacher, high councilman, bishopric member and bishop. As a bishop he absolutely loved the youth he served, and they loved him.

You can put the city around a farm boy but that doesn’t make him a city boy. So, when Lehi surrounded the farm Mike and Annette moved to Fairview, UT in 2018.  Here they met many good people, and he found the quiet of the countryside again.  He loved sitting on the porch watching the eagles soar, looking at the mountains he loved, and seeing the cows graze in the fields.

Mike is survived by his wife of 54 years Annette Seegmiller, his children Auralee (Shawn) Brooks, Avrum (Kristin) McClure, and Carolee Bateman; his siblings, Bill (Deanna) McClure, Janis Crabb, Russ (Jeni) McClure; eleven grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, thirteen brother and sister in-laws, and many nieces and nephews.   He was preceded in death by his son Michael (Mac) Tod McClure, his daughter Emily Wimmer, a granddaughter Vanessa (Nancy) Wimmer, his father and mother, his father and mother in-law Paul and Lila Seegmiller, a brother in-law Kelly Crabb and sister in-law Bonnie Seegmiller.

His services will be held on June 29, 2024, in the Mount Pleasant North Stake Center (461 N 300 W) with a viewing from 9-9:45 and the funeral at 10:00 a.m. Interment will be at 3:00 in the Lehi City Cemetery.

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