<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/obituaries/link-marks.html" dsn="news"><item_date>03/22/2011 03:37:00 PM</item_date><category_header>Obituary</category_header><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><firstname>Link</firstname><middlename/><maidenname/><lastname>Marks</lastname><suffix/><graduation-Year>'62</graduation-Year><relationship-to-university>Alumni</relationship-to-university><degree-program-completed/><position-held-at-the-university/><title>Link Marks</title><author/><type>obituary</type><categories/><relationships><relationship>Alumni</relationship></relationships><main-content>
    
      Link Marks (’62), Lovington, N.M. :: After graduation, he moved to New Mexico to start an oilfield engine servicing company with his father. He expanded to operating oil and gas wells and drilling rigs. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He was honored as a Lea County Pioneer in 2009 and was a board member of the Lea County Museum. Link earned his pilot’s license in 1968 and logged 7,500 hours in single and multi-engine aircraft. He also was a lifelong sportsman and collected antique cars, artifacts, movie posters, washing machines and spark plugs.
    

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