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The Rev. Mark H. Shockey, 75, pastor, city educator

THE BALTIMORE SUN

The Rev. Mark H. Shockey, a former pastor of Free Methodist churches in Carroll and Baltimore counties and retired city public schools educator, died of pneumonia Tuesday at a hospital in Jamestown, N.Y. He was 75.

Mr. Shockey, a former Milford Mill resident, was born in Fairfield, Iowa, the son of a Free Methodist minister. As a youth, he lived in Spencerville, Montgomery County, where he graduated from high school in 1944.

After earning an associate's degree from Roberts Junior College in Chili, N.Y., he earned a bachelor's degree in education from Greenville College in Greenville, Ill.

Mr. Shockey also took ministerial courses while a student at Greenville, and was ordained a deacon in the Free Methodist Church in 1948. He was made an elder in 1950.

A special education teacher, he taught in Baltimore schools from 1950 until retiring in 1979.

He served as pastor of Free Methodist churches in Reisterstown and the Carroll County community of Alesia. He was pastor of the Free Methodist Church in Murphy, N.C., from 1979 to 1990, when he moved to Gerry, N.Y.

He was a former member and Sunday school superintendent of the old Baltimore First Free Methodist Church in Roland Park.

Mr. Shockey enjoyed classical, religious and gospel music.

Services are to be held at 10 a.m. Nov. 22 at Sealey Chapel of Schwab Manor at the Heritage Village retirement community in Gerry, N.Y.

Mr. Shockey is survived by his wife of 54 years, the former Barbara A. Birrel; two sons, David M. Shockey of Bothell, Wash., and John W. Shockey of Seminole, Fla.; a daughter, Kathleen F. Harris of Rushville, Neb.; two sisters, Carolyn J. Tageman of Lynden, Wash., and Genevra G. Erickson of Vancouver, Wash.; and 10 grandchildren.

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