Stacie Marie Long

Stacie Marie (Jones) Long passed away at 12:09pm on October 17, 2015, after courageously fighting a very rare cancer - intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) - for over 4 years. She was 33 years old.

Stacie Marie (Jones) Long was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 26, 1982, to her loving parents, Guy "Richard" Jones Jr. and Judith "Judy" Anne (Bryant) Jones. Stacie was the youngest of three children. Her older brother and sister, Jeff Reagan and Angela (Reagan) Cotton.

Stacie attended James E. Taylor High School in Katy and graduated in May, 2000. She attended The University of Texas and studied Engineering, and was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She graduated from UT in May, 2004, with a degree in Civil Engineering. Stacie earned her professional engineering license in Civil Engineering.

After college she married her long time friend and soul mate, Eric Long, in 2006. They had two beautiful girls, Hayden and Addison.

Stacie started her career at Carter Burgess and subsequently worked for the City of Austin as their youngest ever Project Manager. Her career moved rapidly and she became project manager for one of the biggest and most prestigious projects in the country - Water Treatment Plant #4. As a project manager, her brutal honesty and unquestionable professionalism allowed her to make quick decisions and follow them through execution. She was always seen as a rising star in the City of Austin and would have been very successful.

After Hayden ( 6 year old) started Kindergarten, Stacie decided to shift gears and focus her efforts on being the best mom she could be and retired from the City of Austin.

Stacie loved life and was determined to beat cancer and not let it define who she was. She continued to work while battling a rare cancer even though the very first specialist we talked to in Dallas (Baylor Medical Center) painted a very grim picture and said Stacie needed to get her affairs in order as 3-5 months would be the maximum prognosis with her condition. It was after that visit (and long 4 hour trip home to Austin) that Stacie would not let another doctor tell her how long she has left on this earth. Stacie survived over three years worth of chemo therapy, two different liver resections (removing 75% of her liver and 25% of her liver), a liver transplant, two different types of radiation and many other therapies. Throughout these 4+ years, you would never hear Stacie complain, post a Facebook message about it, talk to anyone (outside of her close friends) about her struggles or use her disease as an excuse. She literally was the strongest person I ever knew - even her doctors were shocked at how strong and graceful she handled every step of her life.

Some of her last words to me were - "take care of our girls and take care of my parents". Even when she was completely ill stricken, she wanted to ensure that her children and parents stayed as strong as she was.

Stacie is survived by her husband Eric Stephen Long; her daughters, Hayden Grace Long and Addison Ainsley Long; her parents, Richard and Judy Jones, Katy, TX; her brother, Jeff Reagan and family, Atlanta, GA; her sister, Angela Cotton and family, Montgomery, TX; and her Grandmother, Floy Rhea Jones, Jenks, OK and numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends that loved her dearly.

In lieu of flowers, please donate in Stacie's name to The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation at their website: http://cholangiocarcinoma.org/get-involved/donate/