Jack Stephen Case (his wife, Tabby, referred to him as Turtle, Otter, Rabbit, and Squirrel-Face. But she tried to remember to only call him those names in private) was born in Toledo, OH on April 26, 1972, and died in Charlotte, NC on October 17, 2024. 

Jack received an electrical technician degree from Trenholm State Community College in Montgomery, AL in 1996. Of note is the homemade graduation ceremony Tabby threw him. Jack's future work as a missionary prohibited him from attending his graduation, so his friend, Jeff Andrews, and Tabby threw him a graduation ceremony in Jeff's living room, complete with "Pomp and Circumstance" played for him by his friends on kazoos (picture that for a minute). Jack earned numerous IT networking certificates, and with the help of the GI Bill, earned a BS degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix in 2007. 

After Jack graduated from high school in 1990, he began his military career in the United States Air Force. He remained in the Air Force for the next six years, working in database management in San Vito, Italy and Gunner Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Jack worked as support staff during the First Gulf War. Interestingly, at Gunner Air Force Base in Montgomery, Jack worked in an atomic bomb proof building where he had security clearance. To this day, Tabby does not know exactly what it was that he did. She only knew that the building where Jack worked controlled the entire US Air Force, east of the Mississippi. 

Jack met Tabby at Gateway Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in February of 1993. They married in that same church on April 16, 1994 and remained married for the next 30 years until Jack's death.

For the year of 1997, Jack and Tabby were missionaries in the Former Soviet Union in the nation of Belarus. They worked around a communist government in various covert ways, teaching a Christian morals and ethics curriculum to public-school children and to public-school teachers. 

Jack started his tech career at a small IT company in February of 1998 in Birmingham, Alabama. Jim Phillips was his first boss in the regular working world after Jack's military/missionary work. Thank you, Jim, for giving Jack the opportunity. A friend, Mike Gravlee, put in a word for Jack at MICROSOFT, and after a few years working for Jim, Jack started working for MICROSOFT in software sales. His job with MICROSOFT was the reason why Jack and his family moved to the Charlotte area in January of 2003. In 2014, Jack began working for Amazon corporation. After five years at Amazon, Jack went back to work for MICROSOFT as a Cloud Sales manager and remained there until his death. Jack was known as a hard-working employee who consistently met or exceeded his quotas and as a compassionate and patient boss who took the idea of mentoring his employees seriously. His peers and his employees loved him.

Jack liked golf a lot and was very good at it. Ask his golf buddies how much they lost to him. He was fond of hiking, camping, and skiing and got away to the mountains as often as he could. "The mountains are calling, and I must go" is a quote that resonated with Jack and one that he loved. The most important people in Jack's life were his wife and children. He passionately loved them, and they were the "why" for everything he did. He remained a loyal husband, father, and friend until the day he died. 

Jack is proceeded in death by his mother Karen Holewinski Fulton and by all of his grandparents. He is survived by his wife, Tabatha Case, his children, Stephen, Abigail, and Noah, Abigail's husband, Liam, their daughter and Jack's grandchild Neriah Jane, his father and stepmother Steve and Bobbi Case, his sister, Jill Case-Gaynier and many aunts and uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and friends. 

Jack would want you to remember that he loved passionately and wholeheartedly. He loved Jesus in that way, he loved his wife and children in that way, and he loved his friends in that way. Loyalty and promise-keeping were his highest values. 

Jack would also want you to remember that he genuinely loved Jesus. That love persuaded him to share the love of God in a closed off, communist country. That love convinced him to write discipleship curriculums and to teach them at the various churches where he was a member. That love motivated him to teach his children about apologetics, that their faith was an intelligent and trustworthy one. And Jack's love for Jesus compelled him to love his wife and children as best as he possibly could. 

All of us will miss Jack terribly. Oh, how we loved him.