Submitted by: Dan Rich

Tamara S. Stackman

Dec. 6, 1943 - Feb. 14, 2008

South Bend Tribune 2/15/2008
MISHAWAKA - Tamara "Tammy" S. Stackman, 64, of Mishawaka, passed away Thursday morning, February 14, 2008, at home. Tammy was born December 6, 1943, in Mishawaka, a daughter of the late Joseph and Helen (Prokop) Burns. She was a 1962 graduate of Mishawaka High School and had lived in Mishawaka most of her life.

On May 18, 1963, in South Bend, Tammy married Ronnie Stackman. She was employed at several area factories and her last place of employment was Specialty Windows in Elkhart. Tammy enjoyed roller skating, camping, bowling and playing Euchre. Tammy's family was an important part of her life. Those surviving her include two daughters, Rhonda Hoak of Dewey, Arizona, and Deborah Ruscio of Mishawaka; six grandchildren, John, Amber and Christopher Tutorow, and Ronnie, Randy and Mary Smith; one great- grandchild, Pamela Tutorow; two brothers, Thomas Burns and Stephen Burns; and three sisters, Bonnie Leng, Linda Kunz and Marianne Parker. Besides her parents, Tammy was preceded in death by her husband, Ronnie, and two daughters, Pamela Stackman and Sheryll Stackman.

Family and friends may spend time together on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon in Thallemer, Goethals & Wells Funeral Home, 503 West Third Street, Mishawaka. Services will be held at noon Saturday in the funeral home, with Rev. Jeffery Largent officiating. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Memorials are suggested to The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care. Assistance with memorials is available at the funeral home. Published in the South Bend Tribune on 2/15/2008.