Benjamin Grant Mark

Ben was predeceased by his parents, his wife Shirley in 2011 and his two sisters Elizabeth Mark, Cleo Kathleen McMunn and brother David Moffat Mark. He is survived by his siblings Helen Annie Newton, Dorothy Joan Hazell, James Robert Mark and Stanley Herman Mark.

Ben was a member of the Masonic Lodge for over 50 years. He founded and published the “Senior Connector Newspaper” in 1993.

Thanks to Dr. Bantock and the staff of 7 North, Royal Inland Hospital for your exceptional care of Ben.

BREATHES THERE A MAN with soul so dead

Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land!

Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned,

As home his footsteps he hath turned

From wandering on a foreign strand!

If such there breathe, go, mark him well;

For him no minstrel raptures swell;

High though his titles, proud his name,

Boundless his wealth as wish can claim

Despite those titles, power and pelf,

The wretch, concentred all in self,

Living, shall forfeit fair renown,

And doubly dying, shall go down

To the vile dust from whence he sprung,

Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (excerpt)

by Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832)