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We have been contacted by Mareks family. Mareks wife Marites has contacted ColetteB over various matters relating to the death...and I had the following email from Mareks nephew. Many thanks Carl...sincere condolences at this difficult time. As I mentioned earlier, and as you can see from all the posts on this thread, Marek was a geat forumite here with us for a long time.... he will be missed by all.
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Dear Paul,
My name is Carl Walker and I am the nephew of Christopher Mark Putka, known to his family as Mark. This morning I looked for the Dover forum as he used to talk about it so much and I was interested to see what all the fuss was about. As you will see, I am a journalist in Jersey so we often spoke about our different roles in journalism!
I can only find your email as a point of contact for the forum and was wondering if you could help me out please?
Firstly, could I check with yourself - or your members - if I can perhaps pass on some of the touching comments left about my uncle Mark to the family member who will be saying a few words at his funeral (date unknown as yet) so that he could consider reading them out?
Also, could you or someone, point me in the direction of some of the last postings he made on the site. I know he had a unique and intelligent sense of humour and would also like to have the option of reading out some of his most recent postings too.
So that you know, my uncle Mark died at around 5.30pm on Christmas Eve after a hard-fought day-long battle to stay alive following a huge heart attack during the early hours of Christmas Eve, which was quickly followed by some pretty major medical complications. He was surrounded by about 20 family members, including both sons - one of whom flew in from Liverpool that evening. It is a huge shock for all of us and we are all still in a bit of daze. That said, I am sure the comments left on this site will go a long way to comforting the family.
Thank you all,
Carl Walker
News Editor
Jersey Evening Post
PS I don't mind if you wish to publish my comments in the forum about my uncle so that people know what's going on and what we would like to do with their comments.
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