Jack Albert Pierce, 82, was born on March 22, 1941, and passed away at his home on November 16, 2023 in Murrieta, CA. Jack Pierce was born in the very small town of St. Ignatius, Montana, small town north of Missoula, MT, located on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Jack was the 4th of 7 children – 3 boys, 4 girls, born to a Mormon family with strong ties to their small community. Jack left Montana at 17 and after enlisting in the Navy, ultimately ended up in California, where he lived the majority of his life. Jack met his wife Susannah, at the USO in 1960 – he was in the Navy and she was in the Army. They married were married for 62 years. Jack was preceded in death by his wife Susie, four months before his passing. Jack and Susie lived in San Francisco and their first daughter, Larisa, was born there in 1962. Jack got out of the Navy for a short time and moved back to Montana with Susie and Larisa, then his second daughter Bobbi was born in Polson, MT in 1964. Jack got back in the Navy after a short time back in Montana, and the family moved to Hawaii. They lived on the island of Oahu for several years, and their third daughter, Melody, was born there in 1969. The Navy moved his family to Guam after Hawaii and they enjoyed many of Jack’s native friend’s fiestas and that’s where Jack started growing his “Jack belly”! After that, his family lived throughout southern California for the rest of Jack’s naval career, and continued living there until his passing on Nov. 16, 2023. Jack was a proud 20-year Navy Veteran, retired as a Master Chief. Served in Vietnam, received several medals, badges, ribbons. He worked as a machinist mate, was a Sea Bee and taught HVAC, among other things. Jack had a second career for the next 22 years as an assistant plant manager at Tension Envelope Corporation. He traveled to open and work on several plants throughout the US during his time with Tension Envelope Corporation and maintained top safety records during his time there. Jack loved camping and fishing his whole life, and especially when returning from being on a cramped ship after several months. Jack loved to take long drives on Sundays and take road trips for vacation which was usually to go visit family – either his wife Susie’s family in the San Francisco bay area at least a couple of times a year, or up to Montana to visit his family, at least every few years. Jack instilled hard-working ethics in his girls. He was very strict, made sure they turned in good grades and had sharp curfews. Jack stopped drinking in April of 1979.. He was a long-time sober alcoholic and regularly attended AA meetings – even when he was out of town, he would find a meeting to attend. He was a regular fixture of his AA community, acted as a sponsor, attended AA campouts, some conferences, and his AA family was a very important part of his life. Jack had 6 grandchildren – In March of 1989 Bobbi’s daughter Salina was born two days before his birthday. Salina was his first grandchild. Jack & Salina celebrated their birthdays together from the time she was born till she passed away in 2011 from cancer at 22. Kelsie, Larisa’s daughter, was born 1990 had a very close and special relationship with her Papa and shared a love for horses. Ryan (Bobbi’s son), was born in January 1995, and got spend a lot of time with his Papa when he was little and they shared an affinity for shooting and gun collection. Jack and Susie helped take care of Melody’s son Evan from the time he was a baby until he started school, and Evan has many fond memories going camping and fishing with his Papa. Their last grandson, Luke (Melody’s son) came along in his later years and he got to spend time with his Papa in his hometown of St. Ignatius on a couple of special trips. Most of us have heard Jack say he was “rode hard and put away wet”…and well, he wasn’t exactly one that was in to exercise or a vegan diet, so that description isn’t totally off! But he lived a pretty good life, he worked hard, and raised a family that stayed together and worked together throughout his life to be there for each other and loved each other throughout all of life’s up and downs. That’s something you can be proud of Jack….know that “everything is going to be ok” and we’ll remember what you taught us.