He grew up in the Ontario area, attended Calvary Christian School in Ontario and later Western Christian High School at the Claremont campus. After his studies at Moreno Valley and Riverside Community Colleges, he went on to complete his Business/Finance degree at Cal State Fullerton in 2002 and spent several years in the mortgage finance industry.
It was a few years earlier that Marty met a young Rancho Cucamonga woman at a Padres baseball game in San Diego where both their families were attending a business event. Sandie and Marty married February 22, 2003 at the Upland United Methodist Church.
They later moved to Laguna Niguel, where Marty and his cousin Carey Pott were part of January Financial in Laguna Hills. While there, their son Cole was born the summer of 2012 and daughter Annabel 2 years later.
As time went on, although he did well financially, he often felt like there were not enough hours in a week, when the rate market was favorable, to be the husband and father he wanted to be. A friend had gone into nursing and as he watched its effect on their lifestyle, he became convinced that his family life would benefit greatly from a more ordered work life.
After much hard work and family sacrifice, he graduated with Honors with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Azusa Pacific University on August 11, 2017.
His first job began in Nov 2017 as a nurse on the “float pool” at Riverside Community Hospital. That position enabled him to see the various areas of nursing and he soon discovered that he was best suited to medical intensive care. Upon applying, he was accepted and transferred into the MIC Unit where he happily served until he was diagnosed with a rare form of throat cancer in early June 2019. He went through radiation and high dose chemotherapy with high hopes that it would allow him to go back to work before the end of the year. However, it was discovered in early September that the cancer had metastasized to several areas in his lower body including his lower spine affecting the nerves of his left leg, disabling him.
Thus, began a valiant fight, often laden with excruciating pain.
After his second hospital stay, lasting through the end of the year, he came home under Hospice care Jan 1.
He passed to his new home in Heaven early afternoon on Jan 3, 2020 surrounded by his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Sandie Sonke and their children Cole and Annabel. He is also survived by his father, Harry Sonke, his mother Janet Sonke, his “2nd Mom”, Samantha Sonke, his brother, Matthew Sonke and sisters Sarah (Sonke) Cooley and Rebekah (Sonke) Buckingham.
Service will be held Saturday, February 29 at 11AM at Life Bible Fellowship, 2426 N. Euclid Ave, Upland, Ca.
In lieu of flowers, Sandie asks that money be donated to cancer research.
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