Rochester community remembers Olmsted County Detention Deputy Mark Anderson
Anderson died unexpectedly last week.
Posted: Apr 22, 2021 9:42 PM
Posted By: Zach Gilleland
ROCHESTER, Minn. - The Rochester community honored the life of Olmsted County Detention Deputy Mark Anderson Thursday, who passed away unexpectedly last week.
The visitation was held at Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Home and was attended by friends, family and co-workers at the Olmsted County Sheriff s Department.
Two co-workers, Ariana Torkelson and Mollie Kolb remember Anderson as a kind man who always wanted to do good for his community. He invited you to his home, I didn t have holidays to go to sometimes and he would invite me over to holidays. He was just very inclusive, Torkelson said.
In 1995 he started his career in corrections in Olmsted county.
He was loved by many people in the community including his law enforcement family. Mark had a big impact on the community obviously he worked with juveniles for a time and transitioned to the adult detention center and I think that it can be spoken for in a million ways that s one of the hardest jobs to have and he firmly believed in rehabilitation and getting people back into the community, says Aviana Torkelson, Olmsted County Sheriff s Office. He had a lot of impact not just into the community, but his coworkers as well, he was like family to quite a few of his coworkers I know he was like a brother to me, says Mollie Kolb, Olmsted County Sheriff s Office.