Stuart Lawrence Wise 

May 23, 1952 - November 1, 2016 

Stuart was the son of Holly Lessley and Marian Darlene Barrett Wise. He was the 5th of 8 children: Gerald, Elizabeth, Virginia, Allen, Stuart, Christine, Joanne, Douglas. 

Stuart chose to enlist in the military during his senior year at Olympus High School (1970).  Following a short break after school ended, he shipped off with the marines to serve on the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier and later with the military police at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. While Stuart was stationed in San Diego, he met and married his sweetheart (a fellow marine) Marale Ann Gore on May 25, 1974. 

Following his military career, he moved to Washington state to earn his Electrical Engineering degree.  He went to work for Boeing in Washington, then moved to Anaheim California to work for Rockwell, and finally he moved to Buffalo, New York to work for Lockheed Martin.  During his employment with Lockheed, while traveling for his work, he was involved in a head on collision with a school bus which left him hospitalized in a coma for 3 months which the doctors felt he could not recover.  Miraculously, he woke from the coma and began 4 months of rehab.  Unfortunately, his short-term memory never recovered, so he lived the last 12 years of his life in a Salt Lake nursing home. 

Stuart is survived by his wife Marale, his oldest brother Gerry, his sons Adam and Soren, and several grandchildren.  

Information source: Gerry Wise 12/18/2023 

Follow-up information from his cousin, Bill Barrett 12/19/2023: 

Stuart was a good soul and had a dry, wry sense of humor. As kids we couldn’t wait to get to their place to play cowboys and robbers all day and kick the can all night. There was always warmth and good humor in their home.   

We visited Stuart back in Buffalo after his accident. Buffalo has record snows due to the lake effect from Lake Erie. And on a snowy day, a bus plowed into Stuart’s compact car. It is a miracle he survived.  

On a humorous note, KFC was a regular fare at our family reunions each summer. One year, Stuart mistakenly ate my father’s KFC dinner. It just about wrecked my father’s life. :o)