Marshall Gordon Lee

Contracting Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 9 did not slow him down. He worked hard and played hard. Recently, he lamented that had he known he would live this long he would have taken better care of himself.

He figured out early that he needed money to buy all the fun things he loved to do.

He began his work career at the age of fourteen working with his Dad at Building Products. His career in the building industry brought him many acquaintances that remain friends today. It was a sad day when he took early retirement from his position at Building Specialties in 2015 due to his deteriorating health.

Growing up in a small active family, Marshall loved everything outdoors. Summers were spent riding horses in American Fork (North Fork) Canyon and camping, or boating and fishing on any one of the many accessible lakes and reservoirs, or playing a round of golf. Winters were spent skiing at Brighton and Solitude or snowmobiling in American Fork or the Uinta Mountains.

Later he discovered the red rock desert and loved jeeping in Moab and boating on Lake Powell or Yuba Reservoir. And, of course, riding his Harley with his incredible friends of 50-60 years, Kirtley, Jon, Jim and Mark. Their excursions took them to Mexico, to Colorado, and California. From family, to his lifelong friends, his life was filled with work and fun (mostly fun).

But as life is, it comes with the good and the bad. Tragedy struck in 2019 when his beloved son, Morgan, passed away. Morgan was Marshall’s best buddy. They did everything together.

After Morgan’s passing Marshall’s spark faded and his desire to live faltered. But then he got his Pugslee. It’s amazing what a 20 pound dog can do to give a person a reason to keep on going. They were quite the pair tooling around Sugarhouse in his power chair, making friends and new acquaintances.

Our family sends our thanks his to friends and those who recently came into his life for taking care of him. From the staff and his neighbors at Sugarhouse Legacy to lovely Sam who visited him almost daily and brought him food from her restaurant and would check on him if she hadn’t seen him and Pugslee. Marshall mattered to people and he will be missed by many.

Preceding Marshall in death were his parents, Gordon and Audrey Lee, brother Steve and Marshall’s son, Morgan.

Marshall is survived by his sister Robyn and her husband Brad, his niece Jaime and her husband, Peter and their sons, Zachary and Grant, his nephew Jason, and brother Gary Pascoe and his wife Gwen and their children, Heath and Whitney; and by a daughter Jessica. And, of course, Pugslee.

As per his request there will be no formal service. There will be a private Celebration of Life later this summer. All his favorite people will be notified as to the time and place that we will join together and celebrate him.