Green Bay, Wisconsin
Cradler, Mark Calvin Age 61. February 11, 2011, after a long illness. Private ceremony. B.Sci., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Geologist, artisan, and sailor. Here's to fair winds and calm seas, dear brother, as you head for home port. Much Love, Mike and Ann, Fred and Sheilah
Read MoreIts said a friend dies twice. the second time is when the last person says your name...
I say it out loud as often as my memories permit. RIP Mark Cradler.
Doug Pierce
February 18, 2020 | Near Freeport, Il, IL | Friend
For Mark, written April 2011
Not everyone can find a person they share their birthday with at four years old, but I did. Every year for 17 years of my life I shared my birthday with Mark Cradler on November 21, and it was always a great day.
If I could tell you what Mark meant to Veronica, Jillian, Mackenzie and me, I would say he was the most dependable, polite, loving and high-spirited grandfather we could have asked for. Mark took care of us during our innocents and...
Rebecca Pakowsky
March 26, 2012 | Milwaukee, WI
Entre #2 ; Mark was a Jack-of-many-trades. And he was very humble about his many skills. When we would consider a project together, he would tell me of his experience and thoughts, as I would share my own. Together we would come-up with a plan as to how to proceed.
Before Mark's agonizing repiratory-distess, he helped for several years, outside my home, going up and down in the ravine near here.
As his lungs declined, he often spent time here, outside, simply contemplating the...
February 27, 2012
Perhaps I am the last, of so many fine people, who have met Mark. We met ten years ago when he helped my father and step-mother reorganize their home. They said that he was a very fine man and a very fine worker. In the next ten years he visited me often and helped me with very many projects. He also became a wonderful friend of mine, a confidante, a colleague. I'll write more, after I read all of your many loving messages above .. .
Steve Ulrich
February 23, 2012 | Mikwaukee, WI
I met Mark not too long after I met Pat, probably 30-some years ago. To me, Pat and Mark have always been "a couple" -- however, that's not how they saw each other apparently. As years passed and their respective lives played out, Mark and Pat were always together in one form or another. I know their relationship was deep and strong, and I love them both. Sorry, Crabby Cradler, that you had to leave us so soon. You always were such a contrary fellow, but that was part of your special charm. ...
Debra Salvo
May 16, 2011 | Brown Deer, WI
I've been feeling this way all along... I still can't believe your gone.
d p
May 14, 2011 | Milton, WI
A prayer for our friend Mark whose heart & caring were a gift to this world:
May the nourishment of the earth be yours, and the clarity of light, both here & beyond.
May the fluency of waters, wherever they flow, be yours as well.
And also the protection of the ancestors.
And so may a slow wind work these words of love around you, an invisible cloak to mind your journey home.
Emily & Bill
emily keelty
May 03, 2011 | Cedar Grove, WI
My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
sharlene hill
April 15, 2011 | Cudahy, WI
Dear Mark, Dan and I so miss you. The chair was full of snow as we waited for Spring so you could visit again. But you went on before the Spring came. We had so many good times -- when you helped us fix up the old place on the East Side, rock collecting on the beaches. Each day as I walk down the stairs, I think of you as I have the banister you added to support me smoothly. We miss your insight and the many laughs we had. Good by, Mark.
Ellen and Dan
Ellen Dettwiler
April 05, 2011 | Kewaskum, WI