Marquis Carl Landrum

Memorial Services for Mr. Marquis Carl Landrum, 73, of Columbia, Missouri will be held on Saturday, September 1st, 2012 at 11:00 am in the Fletcher Auditorium on the campus of Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma with Pastor Will Pacieczny officiating. Interment will be in the Tishomingo Cemetery in the Landrum Family Plot. Mr. Landrum passed away on August 25th, at his home in Columbia. A man of great intelligence, adventure, imagination and vision iwth many varied interests, he considered his main business and life's work to be in banking. Mark Landrum held primary responsibility for his family's century-old banking enterprise for several decades and saw it grom from its own roots in Mountain View, Missouri and Tishomingo, Oklahoma into Landmark Bank, with 41 locations in three states. Mr. Landrum was born on June 6th, 1939 in Ardmore, Oklahoma to Ruth (Walker) and Carl Landrum. He grew up in Tishomingo, where where his father owned the First State Bank, his mother taught school, and his grandmother operated the Walker Hotel. The family later moved to Hobbs, New Mexico to start a bank, and there he attended Hobbs High School, graduating first in his class in 1957. He was a stand-out high school basketball player, but most summers called him home to Ardmore and Tishomingo, to work in the bank or on the family's ranch. Mark chose Yale University to pursue a study of literature and to play collegiate basktball. He received a BA in English in 1961. He served in the United States Army from 1962-1964, with active duty as a First Lieutenant in Munich, Germany. Upon returning, he studied at Harvard Law Scool and was awarded a Juris Doctorate in 1967. He began his employment at the Reno, Nevada law firm, Bargas, Bartlett & Dixon in 1967 and a year later, moved to New York to practice corporate law with Jacobs, Persinger & Parker. In 1969, Mark relocated to Columbia, Missouri to help run the First National Bank and Trust, which his father had purchased in 1964. Mark Landrum's role in the family business grew until he took majority ownership of the company in 1994. Mark Landrum was the third generation in the family banking business. His grandfather, Marquis Lafayetta Landrum purchased the Bank of Mountain View in Missouri in 1909. In 1936, Mark's father, Carl, purchased the First State Bank in Tishomingo in Oklahoma from J. W. Walker. Mr. Walker would later become Carl's father-in-law, after he met and married a local teacher and artist, Ruth Walker. From these two original banks, the family's enterprise grew to cover many small to medium size towns in Oklahoma, Texas and Southern Missouri and joined with the Columbia bank to make Landmark Bank in 2009. In addition to his distinguished professional career, he carried his mother's great love of music and the arts throughout his life and he donated many works to the communities served by his banks. His personal collection, along with the acquisitions he made for the bank, comprimise one of the finest private collections of comtemporary ceramics, glass, wood, and other formed objects, as well as very fine pieces by Midwest artists,Italian paintings, and a noteworthy collection of antiquities. The memorial garden at Murray State Collegein Tishomingo recently developed in memory of his mother, is a current and future home of many of his pieces, exists today largely because of his steadfast support. He had a love of life, which was a driving force of his fascination with music (opera and ballet), literature, history and culture of the world. His curious and adventurous nature made him a pilot, a sailor and a traveler. Mr. Landrum followed an unpretentious lifestyle that reflected the value of the common man, all the while accomplishing a life most uncommon. His heart drew him ever back to the roots and legacy of his family. He is survived by his wife Yulia and young daughters, Veronika and Valeria, of the home, as well as adult children, Rebecca Landrum, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Michael Landrum of Washington, DC, David Landrum, John Landrum, of Columbia, Missouri, Jennifer Landrum of Haines, Alaska, and Lara Landrum of Columbia. He is also survived by his sister, Brenda Bingham of Cedar Grove, New Jersey and three grandchilren, Montana and Costi of Buenos Aires and Rose of Columbia. He was preceded in death by his parents and one grandchild, Valentin. Pallbearers for the service will be: Tom Burch, Gene Lafitte, Jerry Lawley, Mike Hellack,Bill Corbin and Johnny Herd. The family will receive friends on Friday, August 31t, from 5-7 pm at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Mr. Landrum's name to the East Central State University Foundation in Ada, Oklahoma or the Murray State College Foundation in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

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Marquis Carl Landrum

June 6, 1939 - August 25, 2012