MARK D. STACKHOUSE

Wasilla resident Mark Douglas “Stack” Stackhouse, 55, lost his battle with cancer Aug. 12, 2010.

Stack was born July 19, 1955, in Canyonville, Ore., to Geo William and Maria “Snooks” Stackhouse.

Stack was married for eight years to Verna Engle Stackhouse and for 10 years to Midge Howard Stackhouse.

Stack graduated from Glendale High School in Glendale, Ore. After high school, he worked in the logging industry in the woods and in the lumber mills. Stack also worked for Kay County, Okla., and Lincoln County, Ore., school districts in the maintenance departments and for a short time as a bartender in the Oregon coastal town of Lincoln City. He was most recently employed by Wolverine Supply of Wasilla and Three Bears Market. Wherever Stack worked he enjoyed hard labor and camaraderie with coworkers, his family wrote.

Stack is survived by his mother, Ria Hull, and sisters, Patti Palmer and Judi Kimbrough, all of Oregon; brother, Geo. Steven Stackhouse of Big Lake; children, Samuel “Harry” Stackhouse and Rachel Engle Stackhouse, both of Oklahoma; step-children, Brian Williams of Wasilla and Mia Williams-Martinez of Visalia, Calif.; granddaughters, Kylie and Kyann Cato of Oklahoma and Briley Williams of Wasilla; and many nieces and nephews. Stack was blessed to have many friends he considered “extended family.”

A memorial service will be held at the trailhead to Independence Mine on Aug. 28 at 11 a.m. For more information, please call Midge at 841-9275 or Geo. Steven at 775-7771.

Stack’s family wishes to thank Pat Berry and her staff and residents at Granny’s Down Home Care Center in Wasilla for the excellent and compassionate care he received while living with them.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Cremation Society of Alaska. An online guestbook may be signed at www.alaskacremation.com.