Springfield – Mark D. Crapps, 64, passed away September 26, 2022 at Memorial Health.

The Effingham County native was employed at Kern & Co. as a Registered Landscape Architect/Vice-President.  He was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church where he had served on the Church Council, Cemetery Committee, and in other capacities.  In his spare time he enjoyed helping his family and close friends with house plan design, also enjoyed the outdoors being at the coast, hunting and fishing.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Sonny and Beverly Crapps.

Survivors include his wife, Nell Z. Crapps; daughters, Cobie Powell (Wes) and their daughter, Maggie, Casie Lockhart (Shawn) and their children, Emma, Hannah, and James; sister, Marianne Lancaster (Lee); and several aunts, nieces, and nephews.

Visitation will be 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, September 29, 2022 at Bethel Lutheran Church Social Hall followed by funeral services at 2 p.m. in the church.

Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers will be employees of Kern & Co.

Remembrances may be given to Bethel Lutheran Church, 1984 Hwy. 21 N., Springfield, GA 31329  or St. Jude's Children's Hospital, www.stjude.org

Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Home, Effingham Chapel. 912-754-6421