EUGENE, Ore. — Mark Dent, president and chief operations officer of Frontier Investment Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SELCO Community Credit Union, died Sept. 2 at the age of 50. According to a family spokesperson, Dent died from complications relating to a sudden and aggressive form of cancer. "The SELCO family is very saddened by this loss," said Ava Milosevich, SELCO CEO/President. "Mark was a wonderful person who was passionately dedicated to his customers and employees. He will be missed." Dent also served as vice president, operations manager of SELCO Mortgage Company, LLC, and MaPS Mortgage Company, LLC; both joint venture operations of Frontier. Additionally, he initiated service agreements between Frontier and the Credit Union Association of Oregon and the Washington Credit Union League to become their exclusive mortgage service provider. The mortgage expert had over 19 years of experience in the industry, building and innovating within the company that his parents founded in the early 1980s. In 1995, Dent founded Rainland Mortgage Company, the wholesale lending division of Frontier, which is now a $285 million dollar annual wholesale lender.

Dent was active in sports and played trombone in a jazz band.