He is survived by his wife Colleen Ann DeCarlo, son Patrick Marcus DeCarlo, granddaughter Didi Marie DeCarlo, daughter Erica Lee Becker, son-in-law Brian Becker, grandson Nicholas Patrick Becker, granddaughter Brianna August Becker, his beloved pups Louis, Arty, and Sky, best friend and brother forever, Christopher Patrick, sister from another mother, Martha Patrick, brother-in-law Peter Patrick (Thea), brother-in-law Daryl Patrick (Cindy), and a host of nieces and nephews.
Mark was born in Schenectady, New York, to his mother Jean DeCarlo, daughter of Frank and Antoinette Santo on December 9, 1955. He married Colleen Ann Patrick on August 28, 1982. While he was selected to attend Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship, he did not attend as he was gainfully employed for six years on the road and two years in the studio as a musician, principally playing saxophone in addition to the flute, clarinet, piano, and percussion instruments. He started at an early age working in the City of Schenectady Sanitation Department. He then went to work for Energy Answers in Albany, New York, as a project manager. He moved to South Florida in 1989 to work as a project manager for the resource recovery company Montenay Power Corporation and quickly moved up to work in their corporate offices. In May of 1997, Mark founded INNERCONX, Inc., a computer services and software development company. Despite being self-taught as a businessman and computer engineer, his company allowed him to provide comfortably for his mother, mother-in-law, wife, and children with international contracts from the likes of Coca-Cola, Motorola, and a bevy of small businesses.
Mark was an incredibly talented and passionate man, with an extremely wide range of loves and interests. Mark’s first love was music – he was an amazing saxophonist and composer, continuing that passion until the last days of his life writing and recording music. His intense dedication to providing for his family was mitigated by his love for discovering new vistas and personalities through travel, political activism for working and marginalized people’s needs, intellectual curiosity in both sciences and humanities, and all things automotive. He spent the last two decades of his life finally tinkering in his garage with vehicles he’d always dreamed of owning, and was an avid spectator of automotive racing and a member of a local Corvette club.
In lieu of flowers, the DeCarlo family is asking that donations be made to the Save The Music Foundation, a nonprofit that expands music education to underserved youth, or the Humane Society.
He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.forestlawnsouth.com for the DeCarlo family.
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