Gillis, Mark Douglas

Mark Douglas Gillis

July 16, 1959 - August 12, 1989

Mark Douglas Gillis, 30, of Cayuga, passed away at 4 a.m. Saturday (Aug. 12, 1989), the result of an auto accident at Indiana Route 63 and Newport.  He was employed as a construction worker for the Yard Store of Ridge Farm for the past two years. 

He was a 1978 graduate of North Vermillion High School. He enjoyed deer hunting and mushrooming.  He was born July 16, 1959 at Clinton, Ind., the son of Jack Andrew and Helen Staggs Gillis. He is survived by his mother of Cayuga; three brothers, Jim of Cayuga, Terry and Brian, both of Eugene; and a niece Charity, of Eugene.  

He was preceded in death by his father, who passed away April 16, 1979, and a sister Linda Lee and two nephews, Brandon and Caleb.  Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at DeVerter Brothers Funeral Home in Cayuga. Officiating: Rev. John Irwin. Burial: Memory Gardens in Rockville. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Monday.

NEWPORT, Ind. -- A Cayuga man died Saturday after his car struck a drainage ditch and two trees on Indiana Route 63 near Newport.  Mark D. Gillis, 30, of Cayuga Route 1, was pronounced dead at the crash scene, said Bob Jackson, Vermillion County Sheriff's Department jail officer.  Gillis was westbound at 4:08 a.m. Saturday traveling at a very high and unsafe rate of speed, Jackson said.  "He was westbound on Market Street," Jackson, said, "when he disregarded a stop sign and flashing red light (at Ind. 63) at the top of the hill.  "He continued west on 63 about 135 feet and hit a concrete drainage ditch and earth embankment, went up over the hill into a valley and struck two trees."  An autopsy on Gillis body was completed Saturday. No information from that examination was available, Jackson said.