Clifford “Kip” Allen Hardy, husband, father, and friend, passed away on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 following a brief illness.

Kip was born on January 2, 1944, in Warsaw, New York and grew up as the fourth of five children of Art and Neva Hardy. He had three older siblings, David, Mary Jane, and Richard, and one younger sister, Sue. As a boy, he grew up in Perry, New York and was always interested in cars, machines, track and field, and most athletics.

After graduating from Perry High School, Kip served a church building mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints where he was assigned to build meetinghouses for the church in the Idaho Falls area.

While in Idaho, Kip met Sharon Hinckley and as he would later put it, “after the mission, a group of us took a trip to California and I ended up engaged…still not sure how that happened. Next thing I knew, my parents were coming to Idaho from New York for a wedding.” Kip and Sharon were married in the Idaho Falls Temple on April 2 ^nd , 1966.

America was on the verge of the Vietnam War during this time, and Kip had enlisted in the Air Force where he was to be stationed in New Jersey, so the newlyweds moved across the country to begin their lives together out East. Kip finished his military service in Texas before taking his young family back to Western New York to work in the HVAC industry.

Following a short stint in New York, Kip took a job with the HVAC department for Brigham Young University, and the slightly bigger, but still young family moved to Utah where Kip remained until his passing. Kip worked for BYU for over 30 years until his retirement.

Kip was an integral part of his community, where he served faithfully in the church in many callings including financial clerk, in the temple, for the bishop’s storehouse, as a primary and Sunday School, and most recently, and quite possibly his favorite, as ward librarian. He also served on the Volunteer Fire Department for Elk Ridge City, with the American Legion, and served in countless other ways. As everyone who knew him knows, one of his favorite pastimes was visiting with just about anyone. As a family, we’d like to express our sincerest appreciation to the many of you who took the time to talk with our dad, we know you probably had somewhere to be, or something to do, but we truly appreciate you taking the time out of your day to chat with him.

Kip is survived by Sharon, his wife of nearly 60 years. His older siblings David and Mary Jane, and all five children, Keith Hardy (Trevi), Cynthia Herrera (Tad), Christine Yorgesen (Jerry), Matthew Hardy (Rachel), and David Hardy (Chandra). He is also survived by 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Kip will be remembered by his hard work and dedication to family, friends, and the gospel, his larger-than-life personality, and all the life lessons learned from both conversation and example.

We’ll miss you so much.

A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, October 13, 2025, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at 75 South 600 East in Payson, Utah. Visitation will be prior from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment with military honors will be in Salem City Cemetery, 965 South 140 East, Salem, Utah.

The funeral service will be streamed live. Please return to Clifford's memorial page shortly before 11:00 a.m. on Monday, October 13, 2025, and click on the link below.

Clifford Hardy Funeral Service