Jonathan Victor Stoller

Jonathan Victor Stoller, 48, was born May 2, 1977 in Portland, Oregon. On August 5, 2025, in his home in Portland, OR, he passed peacefully from his earthly body to his new Heavenly home with God due to a heart attack and complications from colon cancer. The oldest son of Ronald and Joan (Youngquist) Stoller, North American Baptist missionaries in Japan, Jonathan lived with his family in various place in Japan from the time he was three months old till he returned to Oregon in 1996 to attend college. In Japan he was initially home schooled, then graduated from Nagoya International School where he was very active in volleyball and theater. As a high school senior, he was chosen Outstanding Senior of the Year. Although all of his education was in English, he also spoke Japanese and used it often. After graduating from high school, he attended ITT Technical Institute for six years, earning an AA in Electrical Engineering, an AA in Computer-Aided Design and a BS in Computer Graphics Technology, graduating with honors. His places of employment included Dick’s Country Dodge, Nagoya International School and Leviton Manufacturing as a Project Specialist where he worked for twenty-four years.

At the age of five he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior, was later baptized at Bethany Baptist Church and was a member there until his death. He took his faith seriously and was always actively involved in his spiritual walk and church activities. From a young age he was interested in electronics and helped in the sound booths of churches, thirty of those years being at Bethany Baptist. For the past twenty years he traveled yearly to Karuizawa, Japan to volunteer at a summer conference for missionaries at the Karuizawa Union Church where he ran the sound booth. In Oregon, he started and led a weekly volleyball activity in his church gym which continued for twenty years. He was also the security man of the church for twenty years. In 2010 he became a board member of Camp Tapawingo, a Baptist camp near Falls City, Oregon. Because of his Japanese background, he often attended special events at the Japanese International Baptist Church in Tigard which always included the special New Year’s Day morning worship service to start out the year.

Jonathan enjoyed going to events on the weekend: county and state fairs, swap meets, men’s retreats, trips to the Oregon coast, sports events, festivals, musical seminars, concerts and most recently enjoying attending his niece’s and nephew’s sporting events. On holidays he enjoyed driving his grandfather’s 1953 pickup. He plugged his electrical abilities into decorating the Stoller yard elaborately for almost every holiday. Recently over 600 adults and children walked through his colorful lighted masterpieces. Every summer he went to Cook, Minnesota to visit his mother’s parents on the lake navigating their boats and then in the winter he went again to set up their Christmas decorations. He often assisted his uncle selling flowers at the Stoller Farms booth at the Beaverton Farmers’ Market. He was currently a member of the National Railway Historical Society, Pacific Northwest Chapter.

Survivors include his grandfather, Victor Harris Youngquist, 101, his parents, Ron and Joan Stoller, his brother Stephen, wife Carrie, nephews Evan, Joshua and Drew and brother Aaron, wife Heather, nieces Nora and Sadie and nephew Seth as well as seven uncles and aunts and many cousins.

A funeral will be held Saturday, August 23, 2025 at Bethany Baptist Church, 4545 NW Kaiser Rd., Portland, OR at 1 pm with viewing at 11 am. The funeral service will be live-streamed via the church website: https://www.bethanybaptistportland.church/

A private family Interment will follow at the Union Cemetery in Portland, OR.

Memorial contributions may be made to Jonathan’s favorite Camp Tapawingo, 22505 Black Rock Road, PO Box 189, Falls City, OR 97344 or www.camp-tapawingo.com