David Guy Stone was born in Hillsboro Oregon in 1957. When David was in the seventh grade, his family moved to Juneau, Alaska, where David graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School. He held a BS in Geology from the University of Alaska Anchorage, 1979. In 1980, he co-authored Hard Rock Gold, a history of the three major mines in Juneau, published by the Juneau Centennial Committee.

Stone worked for the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company (AELP) as vice president of Consumer Affairs and for a sister company, AJT Mining Properties, from 1980-1989.

By l989, Echo Bay Mines, an international mining company, had come to Juneau to try to re-open the AJ Mine. The company brought David on staff to manage public affairs in Juneau from 1990-1996. The attempt to re-open the AJ was discontinued in mid-1996 and the company moved Stone to its head office in Denver, Colorado, where he worked through 1997. David was married to Laurel Anne Hanson on July 8, 1996.

Stone returned to Alaska to begin a consulting service in 1998, leading to position with the McDowell Group. He then went back to work for AELP/AJT in an executive position.

Stone served as Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska State Department of Labor and Workforce Development from 2008 until his death on Nov. 20, 2012. He served a time as Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell's Chief of Staff from late 2010 to mid-2011 after which he returned to his previous position.

Stone was very involved in Juneau and Southeast Alaska communities. He was first elected to the Assembly in 2003 and re-elected twice more, serving as Deputy Mayor during his last term which ended in October 2012. He was active in the Southeast Conference (awarded lifetime membership) and in the Alaska Municipal League, and Rotary International. He was a president of the Alaska Miners Association, a trustee of the Alaska Miners Hall of Fame, and chairman 1993-1997 of the Juneau Historic District Advisory Committee.

Information from the Juneau Empire: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/juneauempire/obituary.aspx?n=David-Guy-Stone and pid=161451223