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DAVENPORT -- Memorial services for Mark D. Anderson, a resident of Davenport, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Davenport. There will be no visitation. McGinnis, Chambers & Sass Funeral Home, Bettendorf, is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Anderson died Thursday, May 31, 2001, at his home. Mark Anderson was born March 10, 1953, in Davenport, the son of Sherwood and Mildred (Gamber) Anderson. Mark was a 1975 graduate of Augustana University in Rock Island and had done graduate work at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill. He was formerly employed as a microbiologist and geneticist in bladder cancer research at the University of Texas (Medical Branch) in Galveston, Texas. Memorials may be made to the John Lewis Coffee Shop in Davenport. Survivors include his daughter, Jenelle Anderson, Galveston; his son, Joshua Anderson, Galveston; his parents, Sherwood and Mildred Anderson, Davenport; and a special friend, Brenda Ratcliff, Davenport. Mark was preceded in death by his brother, Scott Alan Anderson, in 1997.
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Pam Kress (Kress-Dunn)
Mark and I went to school together from kindergarten to high school graduation -- Adams Elementary, Williams Junior High, and Davenport West High. He was smart and kind and had a great sense of humor. A terrific full-page picture of Mark in our yearbook -- taken by Art Kenyon - shows him hard at work on a typewriter, maybe in Pub, where we got to know each other even better. He filled the facing page with some great memories, and then signed off in a way that has always warmed my heart: "It's really been great knowing you all my life. Good luck forever."
I wish I had realized that "forever" didn't have to last just thirteen years. We lost touch, and now I can only hope the rest of his life was good. He deserved the best.
Joyce Meier (Pully)
Pam, that was very nice. Thank you. I remember Mark not only from West but from church. We were in the same Sunday School and youth group. What a nice guy. I'm sad he left us too soon.