Carmen Electra's half- brither commits suicide
deb...@comcast.net
03/11/2005 - 11:16:45
The half-brother of pin-up Carmen Electra has committed suicide at his
home in Florida.
Rod Mark, 43, shot himself through the heart last week after losing a
battle with depression.
The tragedy is the latest in a long line of family deaths for Electra -
her mother and sister died within a month of each other in 1998.
The model-turned-actress, who hardly knew Mark, says: "I was sad to
hear the news. My heart goes out to his family."
Electra, whose real name in Tara Patrick, and Mark had different
fathers.
deb...@comcast.net
Rodney Mark
MARK, RODNEY RUE, 43, of Valrico, passed away Thursday, October 27,
2005. He was born in Indiana to Ted and Mary Mark. He was a 23-year
veteran with the local Iron Workers Union #808. He is survived by his
wife, Angel Mark; daughter, Jennifer Mark; stepson, Michael Guinan;
mother, Mary; and stepfather, John McGhee; brothers and their wives,
Skip Mark and Paulette and Rick Mark and Debbie. Also surviving are
friends, Clay Hackney, Don Counts and Michael Sikes. A funeral service
was held Sunday, October 30, at the Altamonte Chapel of
Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home. A visitation was held one hour prior,
and an interment followed at Chapel Hill Cemetery, Arrangements by
Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home
Published in the TBO.com on 10/31/2005.
MWB
> hear the news. My heart goes out to his family."
This is strange. How in the hell does she hardly know a half brother? Her
heart goes out to his family?????
Mark
deb...@comcast.net
Especially since they had the same mother! He must've lived with his
dad, even so, it does seem strange. Of course, he was 10 years older
than her, still, you'd think they'd see each other on the occasional
Holiday or family get together!
MGW
scrawled:
It's easy for that to happen. If there was a large age difference,
they may never have lived in the same household, especially if the
parents they lived with were in different parts of the country.
I have step-brothers I've only met a handful of times.
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MGW
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've
always got.
Brad Ferguson
<mark.b...@verizon.net> wrote:
She wouldn't necessarily know him if they weren't raised together.
Note that the half-brother's obit doesn't mention Carmen. It seems
they just weren't important to each other.
"My heart goes out to his family" is well-meant null noise. Doesn't
mean anything.
I don't think my father ever met any of his half-siblings.
Glitter Ninja
Uh, excuse me? It happens all the time. I have 3 half siblings who
wish I didn't exist and are happy to say so. We all have the same
mother and when their parents divorced, their millionaire father got
sole custody of them. They blamed mom for the divorce, though, so when
she married my dad and had me, HOO BOY did they get upset. Since they
were almost adult when I was born, they were never "forced" to visit
like they would have been if they were kids. The result is they don't
know me and I don't know them.
My husband's family is somewhat similar. I know two co-workers who
had similar situations as well. Personally, I find it strange that you
think half-siblings automatically all know each other.
Stacia
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, MWB <mark.b...@verizon.net> wrote:
> This is strange. How in the hell does she hardly know a half
> brother?
I have half-brothers and step-siblings I barely keep in touch with at
all. Haven't heard from some of them in years. I don't have any full
siblings. I do keep a little closer track of my half-sisters, who
were raised with me, but there's a large age difference there and
we're not at all close.
Sharing some DNA with someone doesn't automatically make him your
bestest buddy. It's complicated sometimes.
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deb...@comcast.net
1998, & the brother's obit says that he was survived by his mother (who
was also Carmen's mother)!
Bill Schenley
> > says: "I was sad to hear the news. My heart goes
> > out to his family."
> This is strange. How in the hell does she hardly know
> a half brother?
Mark, that's gotta' be *real* common. Mom or dad move to another
state ... and start another family ... etc ...
> Her heart goes out to his family?????
What else was she going to say. Just being polite, I guess ...
