Mark dedicated his career to serving others, initially working with vulnerable youth and later as a social worker for Racine County beginning in the mid-1990s.

Hundreds gathered Saturday morning at Minneapolis' Basilica of St. Mary for the private funeral of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert.

Colleagues and friends celebrated Melissa and Mark Hortman. Here are selected portions of the eulogies and speeches from the funeral service at the Basilica of St. Mary.

The shootings also left her husband, Mark, dead and a state senator and his wife seriously wounded. “Melissa Hortman will be remembered as the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.