Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  MARK ORTIZ

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The following excerpts were taken form page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - January 4, 2000
ORTIZ
Funeral services will be today at San Jose Catholic Church, for
Mark Ortiz, who died January 1.  Burial will follow at Carlsbad
Cemetery.  Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-
ments.  He was born on May 23, 1976 in Carlsbad, to Mike G. Ortiz
and Vera Varela Ortiz.  He graduated from Carlsbad High School
in 1994.  He was active with Caveman baseball and basketball.  He
played drums in the Caveman Band and was an accomplished artist.
He was a member of San Jose Catholic Church, for which he served
as an altar boy for about six years.  He was preceded in death by
a sister, Michelle, and a grandfather, Jose Ortiz.  He is survived
by a son, Ivan Rodriguez of Carlsbad; a daughter, Markiahna
Rain Ortiz of Carlsbad; his parents of Carlsbad; two brothers,
Michael Angelo Ortiz of Midland, Texas, and Dario Arthur Ortiz of
Carlsbad; paternal grandparent, Margarita Gonzales Menjares of
Carlsbad; and maternal grandparents, Jose and Socorro Varel of
Dexter, NM.  (Photo shown of Ortiz)