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Mark DeWalle is known for many things...determined athlete, member of the 1999 Missouri State 5A Football Champion Panthers of Mehlville High School, son, brother, uncle, grandson, nephew, cousin and friend.  Mark is a manager of Golf Discount in Fairview Heights, Illinois.   He is an avid golfer.  He is also a survivor of a 2004 battle with desmoplastic small round cell tumors...a very rare and aggressive cancer.  In the beginning of 2007 Mark learned that his fight with DSRCT was to continue.   On June 13, 2007...Mark finally found peace from this disease. 

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Bucket List

Don and me are doing fine.....it has been a busy month.  We have been away for a few days and am enjoying some respite time from work, and just life in general.  I am unable to load pictures right now but will when we get home very soon.

I suppose everyone has a bucket list of sorts.  There was one thing that I wanted to accomplish on this trip that I never got to do with Mark and that was introduce one of my most favorite people in the world to John.  Mission accomplished.  John was able to meet and spend a little bit of time in between his Daddy duties with my friend, Marcus Engel and his lovely wife, Marvelyene.  It was a very special meeting for me.

Lots of thoughts, lots of things to put here but I am going to wait until I get home.  Yet, one small thing:   I am not a really good airline passenger.  Typically I have to sedate myself to get on a plane but this time I could not.  Don and me agreed to meet John and Tabby in Florida and together we took three little boys on the plane from St. Louis to Orlando.  No drugs for Granny!!!!  I had to tough it out.  I must say at Lambert I was missing my sedation.  We had a little bit of a wait before we got on the plane and sat at the gate by the windows watching the jets take off.  Something kept flying around right in front of us outside and it wasn't a plane.

It was a huge dragonfly....absolutely huge.  I imagine a dragonfly would have to be big to withstand the jets....but there it was.  My first dragonfly of the summer that I saw by myself......telling me that things would be ok, and enjoy the time with the boys.

Thanks, Markie.  I needed you right then and I kept thinking of that "sign" throughout the flight. 

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Pebble Beach, October 2004
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Mark hitting the "cancer" into the ocean in 2004

We lost our beautiful son, brother,grandson, uncle, nephew, cousin and friend on a sunny morning, June 13, 2007.  We will never be without him in our hearts.