Mark Berg

Mark was born to Larry and Pauline Berg of Brooklyn, New York on March 05, 1948. Mark passed, after a long battle with both bladder and lung cancer. Mark's father, Larry, volunteered for service the day after Pearl Harbor and served with distinction as a member of the 1st Ranger Battalion of the United States Army in W.W.II, having participated in and wounded during the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944 and fought his way to Bavaria. Larry was discharged at war's end, after serving as a drill instructor at Fort Dix, N.J. Mark's mother Pauline worked in the War Department's Rockefeller Center office during W.W.II. After discharge Larry worked for the Trump Organization until his retirement, and Pauline worked for the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney's Office from 1963 until retirement. Larry and Pauline moved to Florida in 1977. Mark attended P.S. 175 (Brownsville) Brooklyn, N.Y. John Wilson Jr. High (Canarsie) Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School (East New York) Brooklyn, New York in 1965. Mark attended, but did not graduate from Long Island University (Zeckendorf Campus). Mark was active in the Brooklyn democratic party, and was a protégé of Meade Esposito (the Late democratic party leader of Brooklyn) and served as an assistant to Congressman Frank J. Brasco. Mark began his career at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. Mark moved to Miami, Florida in 1976 to take the position as the first Collection Coordinator of the Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami Department of Ophthalmology. In 1981, Mark was recruited by South Miami Hospital to be their collections manager. During Mark's tenure at South Miami Hospital he assisted in developing and managing the first insurance collection department in Florida and also instituted the first four day work week (in Florida) for the insurance collectors under the tutelage of Patrick F. Mulligan, Office Manager. During Mark's stint as collection manager, collections out-paced revenue every year. After South Miami Hospital, Mark held the position of Office Manager at Parkway Regional Medical Center and later Coral Reef Hospital. Mark graduated the University of Miami in 1981. Mark retired in 2012. Mark was the first President of Devonaire Villas Association (Kendall) and served four successive terms, and later was elected to the position of President of the Devonaire Master Association. Mark was a football and baseball coach for the Pop Warner/West Kendall Optimist Club Wildcats (from 1983 to 1989). Mark asked that donations be made to the Wounded Warriors Project or the American Cancer Society.