Mark's Memory Book
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Date:February 15, 2002
Name:Emily (Swigart) Schloss
Email:slvr24@hotmail.com
URL:
Location:Prosser. Wa.
Comment:
Really needed to see this today. Glad its still here. Its been awhile now, but I think of you everyday Uncle Mark. Happy Birthday.
Date:April 14, 2000
Name:Kathy Watson
Email:rameykin@hotmail.com
URL:
Location:Rockport, WA
Comment:
Mark was my brother and is very sorely missed. I have not been to this site in sometime because it is so hard to stop the tears, but at the same time it is a comfort to know that it is here and that his family and friends loved him so much. He was a very special person.
Date:March 18, 2000
Name:Pam
Email:pamyjean@chickmail.com
URL:
Location:
Comment:
oh man...sitting
here....in spokane..missing you..i went to see isley today...she was playing
in pullman...of course i missed the game...go figure...i wanted to see
her play so bad....but i will get to see her tomorrow.....sometimes i miss my family and the old days so much...tucker is graduating this year...can you believe it...it just doesnt seem that it can be real...that you...scott...and mom....can all be gone....
Date:Febuary 18, 2000
Name:Anna Kellogg
Email:akellogg@bentonrea.com
URL:
Location: Sunnyside, WA
Comment:
Please don't forget him.
Date:October 27, 1999
Name:Sandy Childress
Email:childres@quicktel.com
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Location:
Comment:
Thanks for all your hard work developing this special tribute to my cousin, Mark. His smile would melt anyone's heart, and cause people to forget why they might be angry or upset!
He was truly "one of a kind" and loved by all who knew him!
Sandy Childress
Date:October 8, 1999
Name:Bob Milroy
Email:bobby@televar.com
URL:
Location: Sunnyside,WA
Comment:
I was surprised to see the web page still up and running.
Just thought I would click on the bookmark I have had in
my address book for a couple years.
Mark and I used to play pool on friday nights and he was
such a fun guy to be around. There was never a dull moment
and happiness could be felt surrounding the group he was in.
He will be missed, I don't know why such a nice person has
to leave us at such a early time in his life. You just don't
meet people like Mark everyday. He was special to all of us.
Date:August 26, 1999
Name:Tracy Carter Milburn
Email:bachlover@mailcity.com
URL:
Location: Selah, WA
Comment:
We lived in the same neighborhood with Mark and his family when we first moved to Sunnyside. Had some great baseball games back then! About 10
years ago, I needed a friend and Mark was there for me. I will never
understand why someone so special had to be taken from us so soon. His smile and his laughter will be forever missed.
Date:August 21, 1999
Name:Brenda (Roosendaal) Hogue
Email:reefkeeper@wa.freei.net
URL:
Location:Kirkland, WA
Comment:
Mark use to come in regularly to the office at the time (Empiregas). My sister (Sandy) and I also use to party with him from time to time. And Mark was on the same softball team as my brother Randy. At the softball tournament in Everett this year everyone knew that Mark was there with them watching over everyone. It still doesn't seem real and it's quite obvious Mark had a lot of people who loved him. Mark was a very genuine, sincere, sweet person and a lot of fun. It is a tragedy that this happened and I know he will be missed tremendously.
Date:August 17, 1999
Name:Tony Rhonda Brandy Dalton Ramey
Email:trbd@flippin.net
URL:
Location:
Comment:
We were really glad that we got to be with Mark over the 4th of July. We really enjoyed his company and would like to send our thoughts and prayers to each and every member of his family. May the good lord be with each of you in this time of need.
Date:August 16, 1999
Name:Sandra Roosendaal-Coleman
Email:dw@ixpnet.com
URL:
Location:Yakima, WA.
Comment:
I was so sorry to hear about Mark's accident. He was such a great person. He played ball on the same team as my brother and I know everyone loved him and will miss him. God only knows why Mark's time came so early in his life. I guess there are just some things we are not suppose to understand.
Date:August 15, 1999
Name:Carl & Sheila Ramey
Email:sgramey@mtnhome.com
URL:
Location:Yellville, AR.
Comment:
There will always be a hole in the family because there is no one who can ever fill Mark's place.
Date:August 14, 1999
Name:Ruth Schoessler
Email:gran5@crcwnet.com
URL:
Location:Wenatchee, WA
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Date:August 9, 1999
Name:Don Kellogg
Email:Hunterdon4@aol.com
URL:
Location:Renton,WA
Comment:
Found out about Mark on the way home from vacation when I called my brother Bob Kellogg on Tuesday from Hermiston to tell him I would be coming through Sunnyside on Wednesday and would stop by. About fell off my chair when we were told of Marks untimely drowning. Was able to get so Sunnyside in time to say my peace with Mark and view his body for a good length of time. I though the service was very nice and a fine tribute. Met Mark through Scott Kellogg. The inseparable pair. Mark and Scott would come to Wenatchee or Seattle and play softball with us. Had known of Mark before the softball tournaments but not well. Got to know Mark over the next 10 years and want to share with you my feelings. Mark was the most sensitive kind, loving, helpful person I have ever met. He had all the favorable behavioral traits one works a lifetime to perfect.
Being nice came natural to Mark. If I may take a line from the movie "As good as it gets." Knowing Mark has made me a better man. I know Mark lived life hard and to its fullest enjoying every minute. He probably got more out of his short 40 years than most do in an entire natural lifetime. I was not ready for Mark to leave. There was unfinished business here on earth for Mark and I just don't understand why God wanted him now. Must have been a very important game going on upstairs that Mark was called to play in. In time
perhaps we will better understand what has happened.Right now I just don't understand.
Date:August 9, 1999
Name:Jacque Deruyter
Email:
URL:www.epage.com
Location:Sunnyside,WA
Comment:
My parents, Bill and Lisa Deruyter, asked him to make a sign for our dairy, View Piont Dairy, and he said it was one of his best signs. He was verry talented, and known by everyone. My big brother, BJ, was asking him about airbrushing, because he was going to try it, and Mark was nice enough to lend him, not one, but 2 books on air brushing, PLUS some paint and stencles, and some paper. The sum of what he gave to my brother, who is only 13, was about more than 20$ ! He was verry generouse, and very giving. My family and I only have good memorys of Mark, because he was never known to be mean, or greedy. Good-bye Mark!
Date:August 9, 1999
Name:Chantelle Wisner
Email:rwisner@ix.netcom.com
URL:
Location:Tahuya, WA
Comment:
When my sister Lorie married Greg, Mark came into our family as part of the package deal. What a wonderful bonus gift. He was there for it all.....birthdays, vacations, weddings, etc. He always entered the room with a great big smile, and he always left with one. I left Sunnyside after high school and hadn't seen much of Mark in the last 18 years. But it wasn't much of a surprise to me when he showed up on my ICQ list one day and acted like no time had passed at all. He left us with ENORMOUS standards for what a friend should truly be. He'll always hold a special place in my heart!
Date:August 8, 1999
Name:Tina Glockner
Email:glockner@televar.com
URL:
Location:Grandview, Washington
Comment:
Mark was a very special person with a beautiful smile and sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
Date:August 5, 1999
Name:Nick Sprynczynatyk
Email:theskipper@uswest.net
URL:
Location:
Comment:
Mark has been a good friend since he and Scott played for my softball team in 1991. I believe Mark's presence and enthusiasm helped Team Scott win the Hummbabes softball tournament in June in Wenatchee. He will be missed greatly by our entire team. We will never forget him or Scott.
Date:August 5, 1999
Name:Frank Allec
Email:fallec@hotmail.com
URL:www.kzxr.com
Location:
Comment:
The Diamond Dawgs are headed to the State Softball tourney in Everett, and we'll be playing with Mark at our side. I got the team new shirts for this weekend with "Shag" on the
back, as we all know he was always behind the team.
See ya Shag....We'll bring home the hardware!!!!!
Date:August 4, 1999
Name:Bamb
Email:ts_still@yahoo.com
URL:
Location:Sunnyside, Wa.98944
Comment:
I would like to say that Mark was a very wonderful person.
When I worked at the bank and he would come in he always had a smile on his face just like Bud.
I will miss him. He had such a sence of humor.
Sincerly.
Tammy Lapierre Still
Date:August 4, 1999
Name:Kathy,Stephanie, Sheena, Tate
Email:
URL:
Location:
Comment:
Mark has been a friend of mine for 13 years, and in those years we've had several great times: laughing, partying, and just having fun! It won't be the same without him, he will really be missed. In all the years I knew him, not once did I ever see him angry, and it takes a very special person to be that way. I will love you always...Kathy
Date:August 3, 1999
Name:Margaret Carter
Email:sweetgrass1@hotmail.com
URL:
Location:Wapato, Washington
Comment:
with fond memories and deep sympathy.
Date:August 4, 1999
Name:Sara Spry
Email:
URL:
Location:
Comment:
I will miss him lots, he was a great guy.
Date:August 2, 1999
Name:Rennee Hursh
Email:rrhursh@bentonrea.com
URL:
Location:Sunnyside, Washington
Comment:
I went to school with Mark.... he was a year behind me and I remember him from when we were teens and he lived next door to my best friend Merri Griffin... Great guy and a horrible loss to our lives and community..... he's with his great friend Scott now!!!!!!!! I'm sure they are both looking down on us all, happy to be reunited with each other and cheering for those Huskies!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date:August 2, 1999
Name:Ted and Vickie Ebbelaar
Email:TednVic@gte.net
URL:
Location:Tri-Cities, Washington
Comment:
When I lived in Germany I got a call from two guys in the middle of the night. I coulnd't hear them very well and kept asking whoever it was to speak up. I couldn't hear because they had called earlier and had my friends smear the reciever with vaseline. One of the mystery callers said we used to go to Mabton to pick up the Daily News in his beer bottle brown Camero. That was Mark. The other was
John Newhouse. very funny. I loved asking him how a hair lipped dog barked...I know I know he would say...Mark! Mark!
Date:August 2, 1999
Name:Cory and Connie Taylor
Email:cctaylor74@hotmail.com
URL:
Location:Grandview, Washington
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Date:August 2, 1999
Name:Matt Anderson
Email:conspire@televar.com
URL:
Location:Yakima, Washington
Comment:
I went to Perry Tech with Mark. We became good friends and kept in touch from time to time after school. He will be missed.
Date:August 2, 1999
Name:Bruce and Paula Wyatt
Email:bpwyatt@bentonrea.com
URL:
Location:
Comment:
To the Family of Mark Swigart,
We are so sorry for the loss of our friend. Mark was a super guy and a great friend. His smile would always make us smile, even if we were having a bad day. He will be greatly missed by us and the whole softball team.
The team will be heading for "State" in Everett in a few days. It will not be the same without him. He will be in our hearts forever.
Sincerely,
Bruce, Paula, Kraig & Ryan Wyatt
Date:August 2, 1999
Name:Jim and Heather Wathen
Email:woolleydawgs@earthlink.net
URL:
Location:Sedro-Wolley, Wa.
Comment:
Losing Mark has been like losing a limb for us. We still feel like he's here, but we can't reach out and touch him. Our lives will be forever lacking without him. We still wake up every day with the hope that it's not real. We loved him so much.
