Mark Macleod Ellsworth
1960-08-09 1983-04-27
Mark MacLeod Ellsworth
BERKELEY - Memorial services will be held tomorrow for 22 old Mark MacLeod Ellsworth, who died Wednesday. A native of Orinda, Mr. Ellsworth graduated from Miramonte High School, where he was on the water polo and track teams.
Mr. Ellsworth broke his neck in a diving accident in Honolulu 2 1/2 years ago and was confined to a wheelchair, but managed to overcome his disability and was studying at the University of California at Davis prior to his death of complications stemming from injury.
"He required full time attendant care, he had no wrist or finger movement, but he could get around in an electric wheelchair, used a mouthstick to type, a voice-activated recorder to do his term papers," said his father, Robert Ellsworth, a Berkeley attorney and real estate developer.
"He was going into political science, in hopes of going either into law or the government. Basically, he was trying to let people know that regardless of your disability, you could be active and be a useful citizen."
He was the grandson of the late Clair MacLeod, a former mayor of Piedmont and first president of BART.
Besides his father, he is survived by his mother, Patricia MacLeod Ellsworth, and younger sister Dana P. Ellsworth, of Orinda and his grandmother, Kathryn P. MacLeod.
Services will be at 11a.m. tomorrow at Bayview Chapel, 2424 Grove St., Berkeley.
Published in San Francisco Examiner -23 April 1983 - Friday -Page 28
BERKELEY - Memorial services will be held tomorrow for 22 old Mark MacLeod Ellsworth, who died Wednesday. A native of Orinda, Mr. Ellsworth graduated from Miramonte High School, where he was on the water polo and track teams.
Mr. Ellsworth broke his neck in a diving accident in Honolulu 2 1/2 years ago and was confined to a wheelchair, but managed to overcome his disability and was studying at the University of California at Davis prior to his death of complications stemming from injury.
"He required full time attendant care, he had no wrist or finger movement, but he could get around in an electric wheelchair, used a mouthstick to type, a voice-activated recorder to do his term papers," said his father, Robert Ellsworth, a Berkeley attorney and real estate developer.
"He was going into political science, in hopes of going either into law or the government. Basically, he was trying to let people know that regardless of your disability, you could be active and be a useful citizen."
He was the grandson of the late Clair MacLeod, a former mayor of Piedmont and first president of BART.
Besides his father, he is survived by his mother, Patricia MacLeod Ellsworth, and younger sister Dana P. Ellsworth, of Orinda and his grandmother, Kathryn P. MacLeod.
Services will be at 11a.m. tomorrow at Bayview Chapel, 2424 Grove St., Berkeley.
Published in San Francisco Examiner -23 April 1983 - Friday -Page 28