Mark C. Strother

I met and started dating Mark on High School. He was my prom date.
Although we stopped dating after several months we stayed friends onto our college years.

One memory of Mark was when he was cast as Nick Bottoms in A Midsummers Nights Dream directed by his father. We would go out after rehearsals since it was summer. I attended the dress rehearsal. I moved west after college and we lost touch. We reconnected through Facebook and we got together a few times when I was I n Indiana. We talked on the phone a number of times

In the spring of 1974 there was a swath of tornadoes barreling through Indiana near Muncie. Mark and I were walking from campus to a restaurant near where I lived. Not once did we think maybe we should seek shelter! When you were with Mark you felt just that protected.

I've known Mark for over 50 years. Shared many long, deep philosophcal conversations with him over a joint and a bootle of Boones Farm when we were kids! We started our families about the same time as young adults, then lost touch during our middle years. I'm not exactly sure when, or even how, we reconnected during recent years. But it was a joy and an honor to spend time with him. His insight, his integrity, his wit and his intellect were beyond compare! He was also dear and sweet. Happy Trails my friend!