Christopher Alan Stoughton

Christopher Alan Stoughton was born on December 19, 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the youngest of 3 boys, the eldest is Gerald (Jerry), the middle son Scott, who was adopted in Hawaii, and Chris was the youngest son of father, Charles Rowe Stoughton and mother, Mary Jane Pringle. Chris passed from his earthly life on February 14th, 2025 at the age of 58.  Chris leaves behind many beloved friends, family and colleagues, including his wife and best friend of 33 years Traci Danelle Stoughton, of Lubbock, TX and their two children, daughter Brittani and son Tyler. Tyler Christopher Stoughton is a barista for Starbucks, lives at home in Lubbock, and currently is enrolled in classes at Arizona State University for Communications and Business.  Danielle Benton and her husband Mark Benton live in Oklahoma City, OK with one very precious 4 -year-old granddaughter,  Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hope Benton. Lizzie loved doing fun things with her Papa Chris, and she was especially happy to have him play in the water with her, and she enjoyed squirting him with the garden hose and watching him run around laughing and screaming and trying to avoid getting wet. She also enjoyed having Papa sit in the floor and build Lego block cities, and read books to her like one of her favorites,  called The Stinky Giant, where Chris would imitate a Giants big gravelly voice. Chris also leaves behind his mother Mary Jane Pringle of Tucson, Arizona, father Charles Stoughton and stepmother Judy Stoughton, of Denton, Tx., oldest brother,  Gerald Stoughton and wife Marlene, and nieces Kaitlyn and Michelle, and nephew Andrew Stoughton of Albuquerque, NM, and middle brother Scott Stoughton also of Albuquerque, NM. He also leaves behind Step-Sister Kimberly Luevano and husband Chuck of Denton, and nephews John and Christian Luevano of Denton, Tx, and Step-Sister Kristy and husband Tim Holliday of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and their children Keilah, James, Sarah, Susannah, Lydia, and Ashley.

Christopher Stoughton met his wife Traci in chemistry class while attending Texas Tech University, and they were married on November 23, 1991 at the Lubbock County Courthouse. Chris had a degree in Architectural Drafting from UNM and worked while he was a student at Texas Tech as an architectural draftsman for McClarty Baker & Associates & also for Cox & Dirks Architectural Firms both here in Lubbock. Chris graduated from Texas Tech school of Agriculture in May of 1993 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanized Agriculture and a minor in Business administration. Chris, wife Traci and their children,  have lived in multiple states throughout their marriage including Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Kansas before finally returning to Lubbock, TX in 2012. Chris worked for many years as a Territory Manager first with AGCO corporation, and then HELLA lighting corp both based in Atlanta, GA, then Case New Holland in Racine, WI, and finally for Hitachi Global (ASCO) Corporation. Chris had a love of all things related to farming, and was inspired to go into the field of agriculture by his late grandfather George Pringle, who was a life-long dairy farmer in Lounsberry, NY. Both of Chris’ grandfathers were farmers, and the ancestral Stoughton Farm in Newark Valley, NY is still owned and operated today by cousin Tim Stoughton and his family, and the centerpiece of their fall season is an eight-acre corn maze, that has an elaborate new design every year that can be viewed aerially.

Chris had a big heart and was always ready to lend a hand to his friends, and family. He was a faithful servant of Jesus, and served as a deacon for many years at Hub City Church of Christ in Lubbock. Chris was always looking for a chance to spread his love of the Gospel, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to be able to see his children baptized. He loved waking up and having devotional time to study and read his Bible every morning at breakfast , and never failed to remember to pray for his friends, family and colleagues.

Chris had a love for life and was passionate about his hobbies, which included dirt biking, bicycling, building and modifying cars and trucks, racing cars, and skiing, golfing with buddies or going to target practice at local gun ranges around the area. One of his greatest accomplishments was having his heavily modified 1975 Chevy dually Truck featured in 2 different major car builders’ magazines. At the age of 54, Chris decided to hire a flight instructor and worked hard to get his private pilot’s license. He spent the last few years of his life restoring first a Piper Cherokee airplane that he used while getting his initial private pilot’s license, and then sold that plane in order to buy a 1949 Beechcraft Bonanza V-Tail and worked with flight instructor Amy Mitchell to gain the advanced certification required to fly that airplane. Chris never met a stranger and could easily find someone to talk to everywhere he went. Once you met Chris,  you he no longer considered you just a friend, after that you were family to him. He took immense joy in telling Dad jokes and puns to everyone he met. Chris was extremely talented and picked up new skills with ease, including welding, auto bodywork and painting old cars. He had a thirst for learning how to do everything himself. Not content with being home bound during the COVID pandemic; he began a side hustle to pay for his airplane hobby. He invented and manufactured his own very successful version of rifle slings, after purchasing an industrial sewing machine. With a bit of guidance from Traci, he taught himself to sew and frequently sold his slings at various gun shows around the state of Texas.

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