Earl Stackhouse III

1952 - 2016

Earl Neal Stackhouse III

February 16th, 1952

January 10th, 2016

Earl Neal Stackhouse III, a longtime respiratory therapist at Renown Regional Medical Center, caring family man and outdoorsman, passed away Jan. 10 after a struggle with brain cancer.

He was 63.

Stackhouse was born in Shreveport, La., to Earl Neal Stackhouse Jr. and Ida Mae Conder Jones. His father served in the Air Force, and moved the family to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where Stackhouse spent his early years.

They also lived in Alabama and Newfoundland before returning to Shreveport where Stackhouse graduated from Fair Park High School in 1970.

After high school, Stackhouse graduated from Galveston College in Texas with an associate's degree in respiratory therapy and briefly worked as a respiratory therapist in Shreveport before moving west to San Francisco.

He eventually arrived in the Biggest Little City where he worked as a respiratory therapist for more than 30 years at Renown Regional Medical Center.

Stackhouse also cultivated a love of the outdoors in his youth — a love he maintained throughout his life. As a child, he spent each summer at his aunt's farm clearing brush, collecting eggs, shucking corn and driving cattle. As an adult, he loved skiing and mountaineering.

He passed down his love of the outdoors to his children. From the time they were young, he took them skiing in the Tahoe mountains, sharing with them the peace and tranquility of the Sierra Nevada.

Additionally, Stackhouse was a handy man, often engaged in a never-ending list of home improvement projects.

He is survived by his parents, his sister Constance Marie Stackhouse Safran, and his children Alex Kendal Stackhouse, Laurence Perry Stackhouse and Megan Marie Stackhouse.

A Celebration of Life will be held in the Mack Auditorium at Renown Medical Center in Reno at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22.