On behalf of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus community, UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak issued the following statement regarding the death of Mark Allan Parr, a 48-year-old undergraduate student from Colorado Springs.
“I offer our most sincere and heart-felt condolences to Mark Parr’s family members and friends. We are saddened by his loss.”
Parr, a non-traditional student, began at UCCS for the spring 2010 semester. He was a junior geography and environmental studies major. He was a graduate of Wasson High School and was a U.S. Navy veteran who returned to Colorado Springs in 1997 and worked in the electronics industry before returning to school.
Memorial Services are 11 a.m. Sept. 27 at First Presbyterian Church.
Parr’s family published an obituary in Sunday’s Colorado Springs Gazette. To see the obituary, visit http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gazette/obituary.aspx?n=mark-allan-parr&pid=145619219