Mark Stock

Mark Addison Stock, 75, Fergus Falls, MN passed away Friday, February 21, 2025, at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls with his family by his side.

Mark was born in Fergus Falls, MN, December 10, 1949, to Addison W. and Joyce E. (Wilcott) Stock. He attended District 56 country school and graduated from Fergus Falls Senior High School in 1967.

He attended the Fergus Falls Junior College for two years. On April 26, 1969, he married Judy Kay Anderson at First Lutheran Church. In 1970 Mark was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Germany during the Vietnam conflict and honorably discharged in 1971.

After returning home from his military service, he farmed with his family in Western Township. They had a custom harvesting operation and for many summers employed young friends and relatives as part of a crew that combined wheat through the plains of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. He made many great friends and lifelong memories in those travels.

Mark and Judy sold the farm and moved to town where he worked in sales and then for a few seed and farming operations. They later moved to Long Lake north of Fergus Falls where they enjoyed happy hours and pontoon rides with neighbors and friends and cherished time with their beloved granddaughters.

Mark loved to hunt and fish and had a few favorite lakes in the county where he fished with his mom and with his close friends. He enjoyed many fishing trips to Canada and hunting trips out west with friends and cousins. He also had a pilot's license and for a time owned a Piper Cherokee airplane and took his family on trips around the Midwest.

He was a member of the American Legion, The Elks, The Eagles and First Lutheran Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Addison and Joyce; his in-laws, Irvin (Andy) and Marie Anderson; his brother Byron; and his wife Judy who passed away in 2020.

Mark is survived by his daughters, Teresa (Asko) Rajaniemi and Allison Stock (Nathan Kuhn); grandchildren Maria Myhre and Anja Rajaniemi; siblings Wayne (Pat) Stock, Carol Stock, and Betty (Bill) Larson; sister-in-law Gloria Stock and brother-in-law Jeff (Kristy) Anderson; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Mark's family is incredibly grateful to the staff of the Fergus Falls Veterans Home for the extraordinary care and benevolence he was provided in his time there, and to Hospice of the Red River Valley for their care and compassion in his final months.

Memorial Service: 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 23, 2025 at Olson Funeral and Cremation Chapel in Fergus Falls with a visitation one-hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Clergy: Reverend David Strom

Military Participation: Fergus Falls VFW Post 612 and Fergus Falls American Legion Post 30.

Interment: First Lutheran North Cemetery, Fergus Falls, MN.

Arrangements provided by Olson Funeral and Cremation in Fergus Falls.

Online condolences may be sent to www.olsonfuneralhome.com