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Memorial Service Sunday for Dr. Sandy C. Marks Jr.
WORCESTER, MA (December 5, 2002) - A memorial service will be conducted Sunday
afternoon for Dr. Sandy C. Marks Jr., a member of Salem Covenant Church and
internationally respected scientist who died suddenly on November 27 at age
65.
The service will begin at 2 p.m. at the church, located at 215 East
Mountain Street in Worcester, with music beginning at 1:30 p.m. No
visitation hours will be observed.
Marks was a professor of cell biology, radiology and surgery at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where he taught
since the school's inception in 1970. He was a founder of the Department of
Anatomy.
The son of Presbyterian missionaries, Marks was born November 16, 1937, in
Wilmington, North Carolina, and spent part of his childhood in the former
Belgian Congo where he graduated from high school. He received a Bachelor
of Science degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington,
Virginia, a D.D.S. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and
a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore,
Maryland. He later received a Master's Degree in Periodontology from Tufts
University in Boston.
Marks was a member of more than 25 professional organizations, including
being a founding member and former president of the American Association of
Clinical Anatomists. He served as American editor of the Journal of
Clinical Anatomy for ten years. He also served on the editorial boards
of Bone, The American Surgeon and The American Journal of
Anatomy and served as one of three editors of The McMinn Atlas of
Human Anatomy. He was the principle investigator on 16 research grants
spanning more than 35 years and authored more than 270 scientific
publications, research articles and textbooks covering a vast range of
subjects including bone cell biology, anatomy, reconstructive oral and
facial surgery for leprosy patients, biochemistry, endocrinology,
biomechanics, tooth formation, hearing, genetics, growth and development,
bone regeneration, the radiologic diagnosis of child abuse and death and
dying with dignity.
His volunteer work included providing services at a free dental clinic in
Worcester and serving on boards of directors for several nonprofit
organizations. In 1985 he organized and participated in a trip to
Nicaragua to help build a medical clinic. He was serving as Salem Covenant
Church chair at the time of his death.
Marks is survived by Julia, his wife of 40 years; daughter Christine M.
Anderson and son Sandy C. Marks III; son-in-law Jeffrey M. Anderson and
daughter-in-law Lisa R. Marks; two grandsons, Erik Anderson and Luke
Anderson; his father, Sandy C. Marks Sr. of Cary, North Carolina; brother
Stuart Marks of Durham, North Carolina; and sister Katherine Sawyer of
Normal, Illinois. Julia is the daughter of the late Sigurd and Ruth
Westberg, former Covenant missionaries to Congo.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to a fund established in
Marks' name for medical education or to a memorial fund at Salem Covenant
Church. Donations also may be directed to the Sandy C. Marks Jr. Medical
Education Fund in care of Westborough Bank, P.O. Box 670, Westborough, MA,
01581.
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