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Mark Beardsley Obituary
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Paul Faulkner
July 18, 2021
Mark and I were students in Miss Williams 3rd grade class at Jefferson Elementary in Sherman . We continued thru 4th and 5th together at Jefferson. I moved to Farmington,NM for the 6th,half of the 7th , only to return to Sherman in the fall of 1961.
I attended Piner jr high while Mark was now my cross town rival at Dillingham. We only saw each other across the scrimmage line on the football field. The balance of of my schooling was in Garland & Gainesville .
It was at that point we lost touch.
As I discovered he went on to do very well at UT. I went to the Navy.
In November of 1969 I arrived back in San Diego from my 1st of 3 VietNam deployments. But that afternoon Mark did his part to embarrass those Razorbacks.
It made me so very proud to see him in the wild celebration after the game and to know I was once a good friend to this guy! RIP
Frank Steele
July 11, 2020
I still miss this kind, warm, funny friend. Mark was a true original. I'm honored that he called me his friend.
John Stewart
December 10, 2019
Back in 2001, when my son Jordan was in High School, he had a History Class.
Jordan came home with a History Book and to my amazement a Syllabus for each chapter. The syllabus had an outline of important items in the chapter and then a list of study questions at the end. My classmate, Mark Beardsley was his teacher. Beardsley's
parents had been Austin College Professors. None of my high school teachers had ever produced a syllabus on any chapter of any textbook.
Years earlier I'd taken some classes at Austin College while working at Texas Instruments. I found that you had to actually READ the assigned material before attending class. Otherwise if you were called on, and didn't know anything about the material, other students were inclined to turn and stare at you as if you had two heads.
I spent a lot of time on the third floor break room in the old A C Library. Other students shared the break room along with soda and snack machines. I thought the AC kids were much smarter than me, but two things became obvious. 1) The knowledge of the professors, and 2) their determination to help students learn to prepare.
After that year, I was able to transition from barely making a C to being one of the students who set the top of the grading curve on exams.
Mark Beardsley had that Austin College Quality and will be missed by all who knew him.
paulette gransee
December 4, 2019
miss my bff's
Barbara Ragan
December 3, 2019
I had the honor of working with Mr. Beardsley. He was a man of integrity. On the job or in public Mr. Beardsley always greated others with a smile. He was a role model to all those who knew him, teaching others by example to be respectful and kind, regardless of how others treated you. At the end of the school day, he would go and have dinner with his mother, tending to her needs. Mr. Beardsley always put others before himself. Mr. Beardsley, you will be greatly missed by many.
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