We were quite shocked by Mark's unexpected death. We are indeed praying for you and your son, that you might be comforted by the Great Comforter. Mark was a special guy to us, and especially took time to pray and worry over my own daughter during her sickness this year. It takes a special kind of man to worry over a small sick girl that he never met.
We received a wonderful Christmas card from him, with a special note to my daughter, that he sent apparently either the day of, or close to the day he died. Thanks for your note about his death, I am honored that you took the time to send us a note to tell us, before we read it somewhere else. His presence on Lumberjocks will be missed, but I realize it that there a huge difference between what we are feeling to what you and your son are feeling right now. I trust that knowing how much friendship and love he gave a bunch of goofy woodworkers on the internet, and one special 6-year old girl in Kansas, will be a good memory for you to keep of him.
Until we meet in the air,
Mark for the DeCou's