Memorial Rites Scheduled for Mark Haunfelner, 32

Memorial services will be held next week for Mark Steven Haunfelner, an Orange County peace activist and former aide to Irvine Mayor Larry Agran. Haunfelner, 32, died Sunday at St. Jude Hospital in Fullerton after a long battle with cancer.

Memorial rites will be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 30 at Garden Grove Methodist Church, 12741 Main St.

A resident of Seal Beach, Haunfelner had been an administrator with Community Service Programs Inc., based in Costa Mesa, since 1986. Before that, he had been an aide to Agran for about four years and had also served on the Irvine Transportation Commission.

Haunfelner was a member of the Garden Grove Adult Day-Care board. He was active in campaigns for world peace and nuclear disarmament, and he participated in numerous public forums on those subjects.

A native of New Haven, Conn., Haunfelner grew up in California and graduated in 1973 from Loara High School in Anaheim. He was a 1979 graduate of Cal State Fullerton, where he majored in philosophy and political science. He did graduate work at UC Irvine.

Haunfelner’s twin brother is Kurt Haunfelner of Long Beach, a former member of the Anaheim Union High School District school board and also a former assistant chief of staff to Lt. Gov. Leo T. McCarthy.

Mark Haunfelner’s other survivors are his wife, Treacy Colbert, of Seal Beach; another brother, Edward, of Milford, Conn., and his parents, June and Edward Haunfelner Sr., of Laguna Hills.

The family has requested that donations be made to the Mark Haunfelner Memorial Fund in care of Edward Haunfelner Sr., 578-D Avenida Majorca, Laguna Hills, Calif. 92653. The fund will become a trust account whose proceeds will be used to help Orange County homeless, senior citizens, peace work and other community interests Haunfelner shared during his life, the family said.