Marc served in the Air Force before beginning his career as an electronics engineer. He was involved in developing the first gaming systems, including Atari. As Failure Analysis Engineer at Intel, he received a patent for shrinking clock cycle when testing a high speed microprocessor design. In 1999, Marc retired from Intel to continue his second career as a recreational fisherman. He traveled the world on fishing excursions. Some of the places he visited are Christmas Island, Alaska, The Bahamas, British Columbia, Brazil and around the Western USA. From his trips he accumulated a variety of wildlife photographs.
He was an outdoorsman and loved dogs, nature and family, and had a great sense of humor.
Marc suffered from Parkinson’s Disease and died from congestive heart failure.
Marc is survived by his loving wife, Mary Louise (Blakely). They were married for 58 years. He is also survived by their three sons, Steven Thomas, John Richard, and Daniel Patrick, two daughters, Nancy Lynn and Mary Anne (Buster), one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law, eight grand-children, and seven great grand-children.
Funeral mass will be held at 11:00am on Monday, April 16 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Beaverton. The officiant will be Father Dave Gutmann.
Burial service will be at 2:00pm at Mount Calvary Cemetery.
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