Location: 4011
Date: 4/6/2008
Rank: Major
Branch: U.S. Army
Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Army Major Stuart Adam Wolfer, a 36 year old father of Lillian, Melissa and Isadora, was assigned to the 11th Battalion, 104th Division. On April 6th, 2008 while working out in the Fitness Center in the Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, Stuart and another officer were killed from an incoming mortar attack.
In 1993, Stuart graduated Washington University/St Louis Missouri with a Bachelor of Business Administration and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant from the Army ROTC program. Due to cutbacks in the Military, Stuart was placed in the Army Reserves. Moving to LA in 1996 Stuart attended Law School at Loyola University, graduating in 2002 with his JD. In August 2004 he was called to active duty as a logistics officer at Ft.Buehring, Kuwait where he served until October 2005 and was promoted to Major. In December he was re-activated to the MNSTC-I/J3 and arrived at Phoenix Base in the Green Zone January 2008. While serving in the Green Zone Stuart was a member B’nai Baghdad (a Jewish lay led minyan); a liaison to the Iraqi Jewish Community; a participant in the Green Zone Council; Iraqi Boy/Girl Scout Troop and a member of the cricket team amongst the multi-nationals. Stuart said that if Iraq is to develop leaders, it needs to start with the youth.
He resided in Emmett, Idaho working as a regional representative for Thomas-Reuters Legal Division in Idaho and Montana. Lee Anne Wolfer, his wife of six years called him a “loving and amazing father. He was truly a special, unique, dynamic person. He was straighforward, ethical and he stuck to the law.”
Stuart is also survived by his parents, Esther and Len Wolfer of Boca Raton, FL and sister Beverly Wolfer Nerenberg, her husband John Nerenberg and their four children.
“We are only failing him if we let his message, his love for all people and commitment to change for peace, be silenced with the end of his life.”