Mark Howard Terrel (1920 - 2000)

Born 27 May 1920 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

Ancestors

Died 8 Aug 2000 at age 80 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, USA

Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Birth

27 May 1920 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA^[2][3]

Death

8 Aug 2000 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, USA^[4][5]

Burial

Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon^[6]

Census

1940 US Federal Census- Highlands, Orange, New York, USA

Mark H. Terrel Scholarship

From the Benton Community Foundation website: (http://www.bcfgives.org/about/col-mark-h-terrel-memorial-scholarship)

Col Mark H. Terrel Memorial Scholarship

Mark H. TerrelMark H. Terrel was born May 27, 1920, in Chicago, Illinois, to John Ernest and Winifred Burns Terrel. The family moved to Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City; and finally Glendale, California, where Mark graduated from Hoover High School. He attended Brown Military Academy in San Diego, then the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army. The following Fourth of July, he and Elaine Felton were married at Fort Benning, Georgia. He served with the 76th Infantry Division in Belgium and Germany during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. After the war, he attended Princeton University, receiving a master's degree in nuclear physics. He and Elaine were stationed in Turkey and Spain before he was ordered to Korea.

After other tours of duty, he served in Vietnam. The couple then moved to Corvallis, where he was assigned as the Professor of Military Science at Oregon State University. He retired from the Army in 1972 following completion of his tour at OSU.

Colonel Terrel was active in the Corvallis Rotary Club, serving as president in 1979-80, and helped start the Rotary Club in Philomath, and he was an honorary member of both clubs. He was a member of the Military Officers Club of Corvallis and served as its president in 1975. He also served as president of the Oregon Council of Chapters for three years. He served as precinct chairman of the Republican Party and at the time of America's two-hundredth birthday he served as chairman of the Benton County Bicentennial celebration. He enjoyed his family, reading, and fishing.

Mark passed away on August 8, 2000, and is survived by Elaine, his daughter Katie, sons John and Douglas, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This memorial scholarship was established by his family and friends to honor his memory and support the education of the Army ROTC cadets at Oregon State University and Western Oregon University.

Notes

In 1940 he is attending West Point in Highlands, Orange, New York.

Tombstone Inscription: COL US ARMY, WORLD WAR II, KOREA, VIETNAM

Sources

1. ↑ Terrel-14 was created by Martha Lawlor through the import of Robert H Lawlor Sr and ancestors.ged on Jun 29, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S320 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
3. ↑ Source: #S355 Page: accessed 22 Jun 2013), Mark Howard Terrel. Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
4. ↑ Source: #S351 Page: Ancestry.com. Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
5. ↑ Source: #S71 Page: Mark Howard Terrel Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
6. ↑ Source: #S288 Page: 22 Jun 2013, Mark H. Terrel Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 April 2020), memorial page for Mark H Terrel (27 May 1920–8 Aug 2000), Find A Grave: Memorial #36457047, citing Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA ; Maintained by GCO (contributor 46982641) .

• Source: S320 Abbreviation: Email from Katie Terrel dated Marc 13, 2012 Title: to Martha Lawlor, e-mail, "Re: John and Mary"; privately held by Lawlor . Author: Katie Terrel, Bend, Oregon [(E-ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE),]

• Source: S351 Media: Online Abbreviation: Obituary Daily Times Index 1995-2012 Title: Obituary Daily Times Index 1995-2012 Publication: Ancestry.com. Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

• Source: S355 Abbreviation: Cook County, Illinois Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922 Title: database, \i Ancestry.com\i0  

• Source: S71 Abbreviation: Social Security Death Index Title: Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current