Sorry to report that onetime local radio newsman Stan Crossley died early today, much too young.  
In the 1970's he'd been at CJJC Langley, as well as CJOR and CKO Vancouver and CFVR Abbotsford.  
After leaving broadcasting, according to the fine Vancouver Broadcasters site which supplied the picture, he was in the media monitoring biz as Crossley Communications.

Quoted from ronrob

  Sorry to report that onetime local radio newsman Stan Crossley died early today, much too young.    

Ron, I don't know if an obit has ended up in the paper yet. A couple of us who knew Stan in our high school years were trying to figure out how old he was. We figured probably in his late 50s.

Stan had been dealing with medical issues for awhile, but seemed his old self when I ran into him last a few months ago (I'm pretty sure it was earlier this year).

He had been spending time doing volunteer charity work for the Freemasons, of which he had been a member for a quite a number of years, as was his dad before him. He was helping the Masonic Service Bureau deliver wheelchairs and walkers and so on to the elderly, as well as picking up cancer patients and taking them to and from their treatments on Tuesdays.

Stan didn't have any regrets not being in the radio business. He wasn't all that impressed with the inexperienced sound of local newscasts these days. He absolutely worshipped Roy Jacques and he'd talk to me about advice from Mauri Hesketh and a bunch of others who had helped him along the way.

I never really had the heart to ask him about the Swen Nelots story, which someone may care to relate. I can't remember whether it happened when he was at 'OR or CKO. I think it was the latter.

When I was in high school, Stan tried to get me on in the newsroom at CJJC, but they weren't hiring green kids (how things have changed in radio), although I ended up there a few years later.

Stan could be loud and opinionated at times, but he was basically a nice guy who cared about others. That's probably how I'll remember him.

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A Masonic Service has been announced for former Vancouver newsman Stan Crossley who died May 23.  It will be held at the Masonic Cemetery, 4305 Halifax St., Burnaby at 1 p.m. Thursday June 5, followed by a Memorial Tribute at the Shrine Temple, 3550 Wayburne Dr. at 2:30 p.m.  In lieu of flowers donations would be gratefully accepted by the Masonic Service Bureau, Grand Lodge of B.C.