Stacy Raymond Mettier, Jr.

As was his wish, Stacy passed away peacefully at home in the care of his wife Nancy.

It was love at first sight. They met at her sister’s wedding, walking down the aisle of the Church of the Wayfarer, she the Maid of Honor, he the Best Man. They were happily married for 67 years.

A fourth generation San Franciscan, Stacy was the eldest son of Drs. Mildred Metzner Mettier and Stacy Raymond Mettier, Sr. He attended Alamo Grammar School and Presidio Junior High School. A rider with the B.S.A. Troop 14 Mounted Patrol, Stacy was one of four Scouts chosen to form the Color Guard on May 27,1937, stepping their horses side by side across the newly-opened Golden Gate Bridge. Upon graduation from George Washington High School in 1944, he was selected to be enrolled in the Navy V-12 program which sent him to De Pauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. When the Second World War ended, he returned to Cal to complete his pre-med studies. While at Cal, he became a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Stacy followed in his parents’ footsteps to attend medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, earning his M.D. in 1950. His internship and residency in the Department of Ophthalmology were also completed there, with a brief interruption when he was drafted as a Captain in the Air Force, living for two years in Wichita Falls, Texas, during the Korean War. He commenced private practice in downtown San Francsico in 1957, continuing to treat patients until 1989. Starting at this time, he also rose from Clinical Instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology at UCSF through the professorial ranks until his retirement from teaching as Clinical Professor Emeritus in 1998.

In addition to serving on the staffs of UCSF, Children’s Hospital and Franklin Hospital, and consulting for Shriner’s Hospital and SF General Hospital, Stacy was devoted to That Man May See, which raises funds for UCSF’s Department of Opthalmology. He served as a Director from 1976 until 2006, was President from 1985 to 1988, and Chairman from 1988 to 1990. Stacy was also President of the Society to Prevent Blindness Northern California from 1979 until 1982. He served as a Director from 1972 until 2000, receiving the Jerome W. Bettman Award for outstanding service in 2004. Stacy was a life member of The Guardsmen, having served as a Director from 1964 to 1967.

Stacy became a member of the Bohemian Club in 1956, and thereafter spent a portion of each summer at Totem In. He was an enthusiastic trumpet player, participating in numerous Band Concerts and Band Activities from 1960 until 2002. He achieved Bohemian Old Guard status in 1996. Stacy was also a past Director of the California Vintage Wine Society. An avid duck hunter, he was a member of the Cordelia Gun Club for fifty years.

Having grown up racing Mercury sailboats on the Bay, Stacy translated that skill to racing El Toros on Pinecrest Lake every August afternoon, with the Sitting on the Beach Yacht Club. He amassed many, many trophies. He enjoyed fly fishing on Herring Creek, cycling up (then down!) the Dodge Ridge Road, endless games of dominoes on the porch, and evenings of song around the dinner table. No Christmas was complete without his inimitable rendition of Johnny Schmoker and he always awarded a dollar to every child able to correctly recite the names of Santa’s eight reindeer. His yearly Big Game wager with his Cookson cousins cost him additional dollars, more often than not, but he never gave up on the Golden Bears.

Stacy is survived by his wife Paula aka Nancy Mettier; his two daughters, Laurie Hills and Lynn Wolter; son-in-law, Jon Wolter; granddaughter Stacy Hills; grandsons Roy Hills, Ted Wolter (Jennie) and Hal Wolter (Anne-Marie); as well as three great grandsons and his brother Henry Mettier. He will be missed by his many admirers, dear friends, cousins, nieces and nephews.

A celebration of his long and wonderful life will be held in mid-June.