May 22, 1969 - October 19, 2020
Stuart was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he completed his grade and high school years. His highly inquisitive, “curious-about-everything” mind led him to be an avid self-learner who liked to gather information from a gamut of sources, including books, talk radio, TV documentaries, DIY projects and later the internet. He was always testing and trying out new ideas, going on new adventures and expressing a real passion for life.
Stuart’s career path, after he had spent some time in the Army, began with several years of working for RTM, a company that provided security for the many city-wide events and lakeside festivals in Milwaukee. With his supervisor’s hat on, he hired and trained crews to man these exciting, hallmark events for which Milwaukee is so well known. By the early 2000’s, Stuart began his hotel security duties with the Neil Diamond entourage as they toured across the USA a few times and then Europe. Although he spent a lot of time on the tours, since they were not continuous, he also worked in security for the Performing Arts Center, a famous venue in Milwaukee. Besides the many tours with Neil Diamond, he also travelled the country with Yanni tours. From the time he moved to Austin around 2005, he has been carrying out security work at the Renaissance Hotel, achieving the position of Chief Loss Prevention Officer in recent years.
Dedicated to his career, the people he worked with and his friends, Stuart endlessly showed his true nature of being a strong, gentle, and loving person who cared about and helped those around him. While he was unassuming, and not self-centered or self-aggrandizing, he was also assured and comfortable in his own being. He was as content to be building a storage unit for 4000 plus DVDs, or a book case for his many books, as taking care of his and his friend’s pets, the two cats and the four sugar gliders, or in discussing his Zen-like beliefs or interest in ETs with his mom or often playing those long distance internet Scrabble games with his sister.
Remembering Stuart is to remember his care for others, his zest for life and his way of continually smiling at the world, with or without that laugh that would often follow, as if he had a secret which likely may have been stated best from one of the books he loved. In “The End of Suffering” he underlined this “Then the temporary nature of all material things, including our bodies, is no longer seen fearfully. We perceive ourselves in our true identity as eternal awareness. We live in the eternal present and the only thing that matters is how we live our lives.”
Stuart, as your Spirit is freed to go on to the next adventure, we will miss you greatly and beyond words!
Held in loving memory by: father, Michael A. Lombard; mother, Judith A. Toor; siblings, Ben Lombard, Davinder Toor, Nav Toor, Marissa Jennifer Lepak, Michelle Makiya and Katherine Kaye; and his loving partner, Josh Davis. He is also dearly missed by nieces and nephews, Shauna and Amareon Lepak, Anya, Davin, Amar and Dilan Toor, and Ava and Connor Makiya, and lovingly remembered by his dear friend, Dana Berry, as well as many other family members and friends.
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