MUSCATINE, Iowa – Mark K. LaPlant, 46, of Bunker, Mo., died Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009, at Unity Hospital.

Services will be at a later date in Missouri. The Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home is helping with the local arrangements. Burial will at Greeley Cemetery, in Bunker.

Mr. LaPlant was born Nov. 4, 1962, in St. Louis, Mo., the son of Oby and Sandy Neals LaPlant. He married Holly R. Sywassink on Oct. 9, 1998, in Bunker, Mo.

He worked as a mechanic maintenance worker in the lead mines.

He was a member of the Masons.

Survivors include his wife, Holly LaPlant of Bunker, Mo.; three sons, Cole LaPlant of Minneapolis, Minn., Tyler LaPlant of Bunker and Landon LaPlant of Bunker; a daughter, Alexandria LaPlant of Bunker; a granddaughter, Ayla LaPlant; his parents, Oby and Sandy LaPlant; two brothers, Rick LaPlant of St. Louis, Mo., and Kevin LaPlant of Fredericktown, Mo.; and two sisters, Jennie Wurm of Fenton, Mo., and Susan LaPlant of Fredericktown.

He was preceded in death by his paternal and maternal grandparents.