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GARY MARKMAN

Memorial services for Gary Howard Markman, 19, the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Markman of 76 Maywood Ave., Daly City, will be conducted Sunday, Jan. 15, at Congregation Beth Sholom, 14th Ave., and Clement St., SF. The service will start at 5 p.m.

Gary, a student at College of San Mateo, drowned Dec. 8 near Half Moon Bay while on a school field trip.

Survivors include his sister, Lynn.

Memorial contributions were suggested for the Gary Markman Youth Fund at Congregation Beth Sholom.

The Record & Westlake Times, Page 4, Wednesday, January 11, 1967

A Daly City youth was drowned and three other Peninsula residents barely escaped the same fate Thursday on a zoology field trip from the College of San Mateo to Bean Hollow Beach just south of Pescadero.

Gary Markman, 19, a graduate of Westmoor High School and a sophomore at CSM, apparently slipped from a rock and stuck his head and drowned in the surf.

The pre-med student was part of a 33-member field trip studying tidepool specimens.  James Becker, 20, 1041 Lane Street, Belmont, Eric McCartney, 18, 276 Gardenside Avenue, South San Francisco and Terry Rodriguez, 18, 1196 Morningside Ave., SSF, were the three student who attempted a rescue.

Markman and Winfield Fairchild, another student, wandered away from the main group without the knowledge of the accompanying professors to search for an octopus.  The pair jumped from a beach rock to another roach about five feet over the water.

When they tried to jump back both slipped from the rock and clung to the rock on the beach.  Markman lost his grip, however, after apparently hitting his head against a rock and he rolled into the open area beyond.

Rex Joslin, one of the instructors reported that Markman came to the surface possibly as many as six times but appeared to be unconscious at those times.

Other students in the part noticed what was happening and rush to give aid.  Becker, McCartney and Rodriguez jumped into the surf to try to save Markman but they themselves got into trouble.

Students pulled Becker and McCartney from the water, but Rodriguez appeared to be in serious trouble and possible headed out to sea.

But a tennis shoe hooked onto the end of a chain was thrown to Rodriguez and he was pulled a cliff to safety.

The three would-be rescuers were taken to Sequoia Hospital for treatment of shock and exposure.

Late into the evening Coast Guard helicopters and sheriff s deputies scoured the area for Markman but he was never found.

Record-Enterprise. Front Page, Sunday, December 11, 1966

A body, which may be that of Gary Markman of Daly City was washing ashore at Bonita Cove in Marin County Monday afternoon.

Markman, 19, has been missing since December 8 when he slipped on a rock at Bean Hallow Beach just south of Pescadero and apparently drowned.

Subsequently searches for his body by his father, David Markman and teams of skin divers have failed.

The body, which was decapitated and missing one leg, was discovered by Bruce Belisle, the son of a coast guardsman stationed at the lighthouse in the area.

Marin County Coroner Frank Kesson conducted an autopsy and determined that the man was in his 20's, had dark hair, weighed about 200 pounds and was slightly over six feet tall.

The description approximated those of Markman.

The Record & Westlake Times, Front Page, Wednesday, December 28, 1966