I was so saddened to learn of Mark's passing. Seeing and interacting with him at the last reunion was so great. We shared a love for basketball, and some of my fondest memories go back to the days that we would shoot around at his backyard hoop. Creags was a unique person, the kind of friend you just wanted to be around. He worked hard his entire life, dated, and lived the life pretty much until the end. I'll miss him and will always remember him.
The loss of each and every classmate brings sadness, this one is particularly heartbreaking to me. Mark’s parents and my parents bought homes almost across the street from each other on Upland Road in a new development called Ellendale, built in Framingham in 1958. Mark and I started 2nd grade together at Hastings Elementary School and were classmates until we graduated from FNHS.
I remember Mark ice skating on Big Sucker, riding bikes, playing hide n go seek, trick or treating at each others houses. I remember the summer he became a neighborhood celebrity when he cut open his knee on broken glass at Lake Cochituate and he got 51 stitches!
Entering 7th grade, we moved from Upland Rd to the new house my parents built on Prospect St, but I still saw Mark at school.
Over the years , we would only see each other at class reunions, but we always laughed about our shared childhood experiences and those terrible elementary school class pictures of us that our parents kept.
Mark, I’ll always smile when I think of you. Blue skies till we meet again.
Robert Gaines
I was so saddened to learn of Mark's passing. Seeing and interacting with him at the last reunion was so great. We shared a love for basketball, and some of my fondest memories go back to the days that we would shoot around at his backyard hoop. Creags was a unique person, the kind of friend you just wanted to be around. He worked hard his entire life, dated, and lived the life pretty much until the end. I'll miss him and will always remember him.
Janet Edwards
The loss of each and every classmate brings sadness, this one is particularly heartbreaking to me. Mark’s parents and my parents bought homes almost across the street from each other on Upland Road in a new development called Ellendale, built in Framingham in 1958. Mark and I started 2nd grade together at Hastings Elementary School and were classmates until we graduated from FNHS.
I remember Mark ice skating on Big Sucker, riding bikes, playing hide n go seek, trick or treating at each others houses. I remember the summer he became a neighborhood celebrity when he cut open his knee on broken glass at Lake Cochituate and he got 51 stitches!
Entering 7th grade, we moved from Upland Rd to the new house my parents built on Prospect St, but I still saw Mark at school.
Over the years , we would only see each other at class reunions, but we always laughed about our shared childhood experiences and those terrible elementary school class pictures of us that our parents kept.
Mark, I’ll always smile when I think of you. Blue skies till we meet again.
Kenneth McConnon (McConnon)
He was a friend of mine growing up.Me Danny Traverse,EddieBurgess and Peter Maloney hung out with him