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Mark A. Hagen, 48, passed away July 27, 2008.
He was born October 27, 1959 in Akron. He worked as a foreman in the Grounds Services Department for Akron Public Schools for 30 years, was a current reserve officer for the Akron Police Department, and a former reserve deputy for the Summit County Sheriff's Department for ten years. Mark was a member of Valley Community Church, American Legion Firestone Memorial Post 449, and the First Hungarian Benefit Society. He loved people and "never met a stranger." He was always lending a helping hand to whoever needed it. Mark especially enjoyed riding his motorcycle and making people laugh.
Mark was preceded in death by his parents, Garfield and Jean Hagen; and brothers, Rick and James Hagen. He is survived by his wife and best friend of 18 years, Alta; sons, Andrew Hagen and Matthew Mervine; one granddaughter; twin sister, Marie (Vince) Rizzo and sister, Becki Mullen; brothers, Gary (Mona) Hagen and Michael (Caroljean) Hagen; sisters-in-law, Debbie Hagen and Becky Hagen; step-father, Doug Swires; uncle, Bill Hagen; many nieces, nephews, cousins, and countless friends.
Friends may call at the Bacher Funeral Home, 3326 Manchester Rd. on Wednesday, July 30 from 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 p.m., with services following at 7 p.m., Pastor Mark Archer officiating. Donations may be made to a charity of the donor's choice, in memory of Mark. Funeral home map, directions, and the Hagen Family condolence book are available at www.bacherfuneralhome.com.(Bacher, 330-644-0024)
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Dylan Hupp
March 2, 2024
I wish I could've gotten to know you a lot better, Uncle Mark. I hope you're having a good time up there in Heaven? I'm sure you are! Lot's of love. - Your nephew Dylan
James Hagen
February 9, 2023
I wish I got the chance to meet you. If you were anything like your wonderful brothers and sisters, I'm sure you were a joy to be around. Oh how blessed I am to have quality relationships with our family. I miss you and I don't even know you. Rest in Peace.
Mike Hagen
July 27, 2021
What up, Moose
BECKI MULLEN
July 27, 2020
Oh my Moose! I cannot believe it has been so long since I have written on this! I certainly think of you, Rick , Jim and Mom and Dad often. But truly you boys mostly. I miss you so often and always when I drop something on my chest.!!! It was always a race between me and Alice! What fun we had playing Euchre! Can't wait to be with you guys but I am sure it will be a long while! I love you and the guys so much! I'm weepy today just like on Rick and Jim's going home day! I love you! Your big sis!!!
Weezy
October 27, 2016
Oh my Mark, I'm still in love with you. So many days & memories have passed since you left us. Today is Marie and your special day. I still remember when you two celebrated yours 18th birthday and before. I was proud then and continue to be proud to be your wife along with being Marie's friend, sister in law & family. Love you always my dear
Big Sis
July 27, 2015
I keep thinking that there may come a time that I don't miss you, Jim and Rick - but it has not come yet. Been weepy about all of you this week, family reunion, anniversaries of you and Jim's death. So glad you boys aren't here to go through losing siblings and spouses. It doesn't seem to get a lot easier. I love you Mark Anthony!!!
Little Moose.
Mike Hagen
July 27, 2015
Weezy
June 24, 2015
I always feel your touch and memories. Today would have been our 25th anniversary. I will always love you my dear and I remember our times! Good, bad & some ugly, but we chose to be the BEST until you were taken from this earth, but not from all of our hearts. I'll always miss you and love you. Every time I see a cardinal it brings overwhelming memories. Sometimes your brothers come and say hello but I know when it is you. I still have so many tears and you still make me laugh.
Skedge!
January 31, 2015
Dude! You were in my dream last night giving me a hard time. Miss you and love you.
MIKE HAGEN
November 8, 2014
Thanks, Bob. It is always great to hear good things about Moose.
Bob Simpson
November 7, 2014
Was thinking about Mark the other day and what a very good friend he was to me. So caring ,not only to me but to everyone he came in contact with.
November 6, 2014
What up, Moose?
Weezy
October 27, 2014
My Mark, how do I continue to do it right. I thought it would get easier but so far not yet. I still love, miss you to where my heart continues to hurt to where I can't take another breathe. Love you my dear! Happy Birthday
June 23, 2014
My dear honey, I'm such a blessed person that you chose me and let me love you back. I remember this day 24 years later. It rained, Andrew mad that his sticker fell of his tie and every memory after that. Your touch, words, wisdom and kisses I'll never forget and still remember. Happy Anniversary my dear. I still cry, wish for you but you made me promise to go on, it's been such a long struggle but I will do the best I can to make you proud! Love, you Weezy!
We Love You, Moose
November 29, 2013
Weezy
October 28, 2013
Ya, like they said, no fun! Happy Birthday my dear. Still love you and miss you
Becki
October 28, 2013
Skedge is right, it's no fun without you! I miss you and the other boys so much. It warms my heart to know you are all together! Love you bunches!!
MIKE HAGEN
October 27, 2013
Happy Birthday, Mark. It's no fun around here without you. We miss you.
Love, Skedge!
Ashley Hagen
December 26, 2012
Merry Christmas uncle mark:)
Paula Schmitt
December 11, 2012
Just remembering all our good times at Christmas and always!!!! Thanks for always taking care of us Mark*** You are dearly missed by ALL......
Skedge!
November 23, 2012
Just stopped by to say Hey!
Weezy
August 15, 2012
Oh my dear honey, I so try to do all of it right, with the many struggles you've left me to travel alone. I just need to know when does it get easier? Love you
July 27, 2012
Love and miss you Mark!! Your womb mate!
April 28, 2012
Hey, Moose! Miss ya.
Love, Skedge!
Weezy
March 14, 2012
You've given me the strength to face my tomorrows
Weezy
February 12, 2012
I struggle for today because I tasted yesterday. Love you more ...
Alta
December 29, 2011
I don't like me without you. I so want to hear your voice, able to feel your warm touch along with to the sweet whisper to feel safe again. Oh how deeply I miss you.
Alta
December 26, 2011
I so miss you and continue to struggle. I made it through another holiday without you because I'm blessed with the best family and true friends. Love you
Weezy
October 27, 2011
Soft tears, warm heart of all the memories of your birthdays past. Love you more
Mark & Alta Hagen
July 27, 2011
Your Weezy
July 27, 2011
My dear, dear honey, many emotions, enduring memories and so many tears. How I continue to yearn for your guidance, feel your breathe and kind touch, hear your sweet voice, along with your hearty laugh. I want it all back but realize it’s just not going to happen today. We always said “we’d live in a cardboard box, hungry, cold , in Alaska during January together then apart”, but I‘m left here alone. I still don’t know how to do it right and fall short without you because you made me complete and whole. I just can’t keep asking… why? I know we were both blessed with the wholesome and unconditional love. Love you forever!
Alta
June 23, 2011
Happy 21st anniversary my dear honey. I miss you more than words could ever describe. Love you always
Alta
May 30, 2011
My dearest honey, I so miss you and thought about all day long. Thank goodness I was surrounded by grand family & friends because that is what makes today and everyday bearable. Love you always!
April 21, 2011
Love you, love you and still love you more! Your Weezy
Weezy
February 27, 2011
Tears,tears & more tears.
Alta
December 26, 2010
My honey, made it through another holiday without you but we all still reminisce about "back in the day". Not just me but so, so many. Loved and missed by all, especially ME.
Weezy
October 28, 2010
My honey, so much happening but I'm the one that continues to yearn for your sweet, soft whispers, clever words, positive outlook, happy smile and I always hope for your wisdom and exceptional guidance. I still hear, feel, smell & roam throughout our house and REMEMBER what the grand man I was so blessed with. This should have been your fifty first birthday and I'm allowed to say miss & love you more!
September 12, 2010
My Mark, such a sad heart I have. Love always
July 28, 2010
What more is there to say? I love you so much and miss you, but I know that I will see you again in Heaven. your big sis
Alta
July 27, 2010
My dear Mark, so many emotions, thoughts and memories I don’t even know where or how to begin. I continue to beg and pray you were still here with me and always realized how very lucky I was to have such a grand man that loved me so. People still come up to me with wonderful stories of you which makes me smile every time! I’ll always love you! Your Weezy
July 27, 2010
Mark, I love you and miss you so very much!! Your twin
July 27, 2010
Mark, I love you and miss you so much!!
What A Cute Kid
July 27, 2010
Words escape me. You are missed.
I love you,
Skedge!
July 4, 2010
My honey, here I go again reminscing. Today is another holiday/milestone and I'll continue to miss you. You would be happy that I spent yesterday with many new and old friend but today blessed with family. We had many tremendous, unforgetable holidays. I still shout,smile and cry what an amazing person we are left here without. I love you more! Your Weezy
June 23, 2010
Today should have been our 20th anniversary. I still struggle without you but all the grand memories and blessed with your love help keep me going. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish and pray you were here. I love you!
June 23, 2010
Happy Anniversary, Moose. We love and miss you.
Love, S!
June 20, 2010
Happy Fathers Day my dear honey, you are so loved and missed. I can hardly hold back the tears today because of the heartache. Love you always Weezy
ashley hagen
June 20, 2010
happy fathers day
Alta
June 20, 2010
Happy Fathers day honey, you are so loved and missed.
May 28, 2010
My honey, it’s getting close to Memorial Day and I‘ve been reminiscing. I’ll never forget our first year here, you were recovering from surgery and we put up our flag pole. I dug the hole but even in your pain you one handedly used the spud bar to loosen the dirt for me. I didn’t think three feet down was as deep to dig as you said but by the time I finally finished I realized how difficult it was and how much you always did for me. At the time we did it in memory of your dad, my dad and for Doug that served our country in the armed forces, but how we smiled when the project was complete. Today I remember EVERYONE I have lost and try not to be overwhelmed with sadness. Love you always your Weezy
February 14, 2010
Happy Valentine's Day my honey. Love always your Weezy
December 26, 2009
Had a great time at your house tonight Mark. Missed you though.
Love ya, B
Alta
December 26, 2009
My Dearest Mark, tonight is the Hagen Christmas party and once again we are going through it without you and many others who are so missed. I'll always love you and miss you.
Skedge!
December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas, Moose.
A Hagen
December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas
Love you
Ashley
December 12, 2009
My honey, our Skedge is home close to the holidays, how lucky are we! I so love and miss you. Please come back to me. You know I'll always love you. Weezy
Ashley
November 26, 2009
Happy thanksgiving
November 11, 2009
Hey, Moose. I missed your phone call today.
Love, Skedge!
October 29, 2009
Well Moose, we celebrated Marie's 50th and we know you were there too. We saw you in the picture! I wish you would have been there in person. I miss you bunches and love you, Becki
October 29, 2009
Moose. You missed a cool rockslide here in NC.
Love, S!
Marie Rizzo
October 28, 2009
Mark, Happy 50th Birthday to my wombmate. You are so missed and loved forever. Your twin, Marie
Weezy
October 27, 2009
My Honey, today would have been your 50th b-day and as I always wish and pray you were here with us. I can still see your warm smile, hear your boisterous laugh , miss your silly jokes, feel your kind hand and some how make everything ok for everyone in your own way. Time has not healed all but everyone is still remembering and missing you. I still love you!
Weezy
September 7, 2009
My honey, once again I made it through another holiday without you. We had a grand day yesterday because of the family and small children here. I believe they all enjoyed and some how you give me the strength to make it. I so love you and miss you. We all wished you were here but some how we managed to have smiles because of the memories of you.
August 2, 2009
My honey, how I miss you more and more everyday that I must go on without you. They say time heals, but my heart is still torn, broken and lost without you. Your smile, kind hand, wounderful words and laugh we all miss. What a grand man we were all blessed to have in our lives.
Love you, Alta
July 27, 2009
Mark, It's hard to believe it has been a year already since you've been gone. I miss you go much, it's not the same without you, you we're the strong one. I miss your sence of humor, you could always brighten the day. We had a bitter sweet weekend.
Love you and miss you, Your twin, Marie
Skedge!
July 27, 2009
Moose. We all had a good time yesterday at YOUR picnic. I even snaked a drain at your house for your honey. Man you got some dirty pipes. Weezie is doing just what you told her to do. Everything is good on this end. We miss you and love you.
Ashley Hagen
July 27, 2009
Getting ready to go leave some flowers for ya. I miss you and love you.
Ashley
Mary Millward-Richardson
July 27, 2009
I went to a wonderful picnic at your house yesterday and was welcomed by your beautiful wife, family and friends. Mike and I parked in the garage for a few hours just talking and reminsceing. So many great memories we shared and stories we told my daughter Lisa about you. Alta even gave me a book 'Mark' :). I am so happy that I got to be a part of the picnic in your honor. Everybody misses you Mark. I miss you too.
Sincerely with love,
July 27, 2009
Mark Anthony, I miss you like crazy!!! I cannot believe it has been a year! Well, to day is the end of all the firsts we had to get through, Alta and Todd are out today celebrating your life. We had a great picnic in your honor yesterday. Your friends have really come through, just as you said they would. What Weezie needs, Weezie gets! I find it amazing that more of you are together than you left here! I was looking at the pics in your family room and seeing all of you in one place made me realize just how much we have lost, but knowing that you boys have so much company in each other and Mom and Dad. I love you Mark, thanks for all you taught me down here. You still have the best wit! we miss that. Your 'littler' big sister.
July 27, 2009
My honey, I can not believe it has been a year. All day I've thought about what I was doing at that moment a year ago and I still remember as if I'm living it again. I had grand people around me all day with some tears and many laughs as we talked about all the found memories of you. My heart so aches for your kind touch, warm smile and you telling me it is ok. I still don't know how to do it. You’d be so proud of our friends that got me through it once again. If wishing and praying would bring you back to us, you'd be here today. I love you!
~
Alta
Alta
July 8, 2009
My honey, I love you more and more. Thank you for so many years of bliss!
Your Weezy!
June 24, 2009
My honey, once again I'm writing to express how much I miss you and love you more. I had to wait tonight to make sure I could make it through the day, and I did. I can not say it enough, if wishing and praying would make it so you would be here to tell me it is all right and allow me once again to look into your eyes, to feel your kind soft hand on my face. Happy Anniversary!
Ashley Hagen
June 21, 2009
Happy Fathers Day. Love you.
Ashley
Skedge!
June 21, 2009
Happy Fathers Day, Moose. You are missed.
May 25, 2009
My honey, over the past couple of weeks I've had to go through without you once again and how I‘ve wished and prayed you were here to enjoy the new generation of marriages. Not many can imagine how the simple tasks are so difficult, but yet I still manage to go through them alone. You are constantly on my mind and in my heart. I've realized many people miss you but not like I do and my heart so aches for you every moment. Today is Memorial Day and so many grand memories that over flow and bring tears of joy of just the thought of you.
Love you,
Al
Skedge
May 25, 2009
I miss you more
Alta
May 18, 2009
My honey, I just need to say I love you more. Tonight I heard the song "What a Wonderful World”. I finally realize that is exactly how you looked at it, all of it and I hope to see it that way too. I still miss you and please come back to me.
ashley hagen
May 1, 2009
Love ya!
Skedge
April 28, 2009
Missed you today. Love you.
Alta
April 27, 2009
My honey, here we are, another month has passed and still feels just like the first day. You would be so proud of our close friends as they are looking out and taking very good care of me. They start working on the kitchen tonight and we all keep saying how we wish you were here and how we'll even miss you getting frustrated working on projects around the house. How I still miss your wit, your jokes, your laugh, your smile, your guidance, and your touch. I love you more!
April 26, 2009
Mark, I sometimes cannot believe you have been gone for so long, but then it seems like you just left. I miss you so much as do all of us. Alta is doing as well as she can and your friends have not let you down. Love ya, big sis
Alta
April 17, 2009
My honey, here I am once again begging for your guidance, praying and wishing you were still here with me as I have another road to travel alone. I know you have given me "the right tools in the box", I just have to figure out how to use them correctly. It seems so simple for others and how I struggle more and more each day. I still love your more! Your Weezy
April 14, 2009
Missed you Sunday. Love, B
Missy Woods-Hall
April 10, 2009
Alta..sorry to hear about Doug. We had some really good times with Jean,Doug,and
you and Mark. I miss you terribly..I would love to see you.
Becki
April 4, 2009
I have to say it really was not the same without you and Jim calling me at the crack of dawn today to wish me Happy Birthday! I love and miss you every day!
April 3, 2009
How very beautiful and caring you are, whoever you are, that wrote that. I can only say you are wonderful
Mark
April 1, 2009
I love and miss you, too!
Alta
March 30, 2009
My honey, how much I miss you and how my heart aches for you. I don’t know how to do it. The tears still flow freely but the good times and happy memories is what keeps me getting up in the morning. Every time I speak of you, you bring a smile to my face. I love you MORE. Your Weezy
Jeff Hagen
March 27, 2009
Alta, I don't even know where to begin. I thought everything that I went through was difficult, until I received that phone call (July 27, 2008). I will never forget when Mark called me the night after my terrible accident, he reminded me that even though "family" may not stay in touch....they are ALWAYS there when you need them. But as you know that's the kind of person Mark was. I am reminded every day "on patrol" of Mark and will never forget him. I just wish that I had a chance to "ride" with him.
Kristine Nash
March 19, 2009
Alta & Family,
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I recently had the pleasure of finally meeting Doug although under horrible circumstances- Marks' Passing. He was a wonderfull man. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you! Love, Kristine
March 18, 2009
My honey, how much I still need you, pray and wish you back. What we all had to endure the past several days of losing another loved one, our Doug. You would continue to be so very proud of Mike and his 20 year anniversity!
I love you more, Weezy
Skedge
March 17, 2009
I did it. I hit my twenty years of sobriety. Wish you were her to enjoy it with me.
Love,
Ashley Hagen
March 16, 2009
Love you
Marlene & Jon Held
March 8, 2009
Skedge & family,
I just checked in to let you know you are in our thoughts and prayers for Mark & James.
I lost my brother, Bob, in July and my heart has broken. I know how difficult it is to not have our loved ones with us.
I also know how nice it is to have our loved ones remembered. Your family does a really wonderful job of this.
God bless you all.
February 14, 2009
Oh my honey, how much I miss you, my heart is still hurting! I just want you back. Today is just another milestone and how much we still miss all of you.
Please come back to me ...
Love you...Al
Skedge!
January 27, 2009
It still hurts, Moose. I love you.
Weezy
January 26, 2009
My honey, tomorrow is another milestone, 6 months. Tonight was a nice evening with most of my sister in laws. We went to dinner and reminisced about all three of you and actually had a few laughs but very heavy hearts. I don't think there's many that understand how difficult all this is. Oh, how my heart so aches for you and how sad I am. I still don't know how to do this. If wishing and praying would make it so you would be back with us. I love you!
Ashley Hagen
January 1, 2009
It was so hard losing you the way we did. I've said it before, but it really makes me smile to think that all three of you are together. I think about you all the time and I miss you. Love you and Happy New Year.
Ashley
Weezy
December 27, 2008
My Honey, today is the five month anniversary of the tragic, life changing day for everyone you met, spoke to or had the good fortune of the lives you touched.
Yesterday we had the family Christmas party at Maries and even though there were heavy hearts some how you brought a bright smile to everyone’s face with the many memories and stories about you .
My heart so aches for you and time has not healed.
I Love you … more
Big Sis
December 25, 2008
Mark, this is the saddest Christmas ever!I miss you boys so darn much. Tomorrow will not be the same without your wisecracks or Jimmy telling us how beautiful we are or Rick hugging us. I love you.
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