Born:  June 28, 1924
Engaged to:  Maureen
Died:  December 19, 1947 12:30pm
Jerome and Mark
Mark Anthony was attending St. John's University at Collegeville in December of 1947.  He was engaged to be married. Mark was also to act as best man in his brother Greg wedding's the following June.  On the afternoon of Dec 19th, Mark was playing hockey with some of his buddies at school.  When they finished they were heading to dinner at the college cafeteria.  Each had gone to his dorm room to change.  When a friend of Mark's came to meet him for dinner, he found Mark dying of heart failure.  He was 22 years old.*  Mark was to be the bestman in his brother Greg's wedding the next June.  Greg and Shirlee went to pick Mark up from the train station and when he was not on the train, they went back to the house. Tommy Gibbons was sitting at the kitchen table.  When they walked in he looked up and said "Your brother is dead."**  Very sad.
*Told to Mary Opatz by Jerome Gibbons, Mark's twin
**Told to Mary Opatz by Greg Gibbons, Mary's father
Last photo taken of Mark before he died.  Notice the snowball in his hand. Mark with his fiance, Maureen
in August of 1947 at
Glacier National Park.
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