John Robert Stanley

Nov 1, 2002 | Obituaries

John Robert Stanley, a 76-year-old resident of Detroit, MI passed away on Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 at the Beaumont Hospital in Troy, MI.

Graveside services will be held on Monday, Nov. 4, 2002 at 1 p.m. at the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, northwest of Princeton. Pastor Guy Olin Thomas will officiate under the direction of the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Service of Princeton.

Open visitation will be held from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home.

Mr. Stanley was born in Princeton on May 21, 1926, the son of Claude W. and Lennie Mae Mulvania Stanley. He was raised in Mercer County and was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army. He was a 1949 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and got his first job at the Kewanee Star-Courier in Illinois. One year later, he returned to Princeton as editor of the Princeton Post Telegraph. He then moved to Centralia, IL, as city editor and from there to Gary, IN as a reporter. After moving to Michigan as the managing editor of the Cadillac Evening News, he settled in at The Detroit News for 27 years, retiring in 1990 as chief copy editor. He also taught journalism classes as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University for four years, and taught both English and journalism at Macomb Community College and Mercy College.

Mr. Stanley is survived by one daughter, Elisabeth Hayes and her husband, Kevin, of Rochester Hills, MI; two sons, John R. “Tad” Stanley, Jr., also of Rochester Hills and Geoffrey S. Stanley and his wife, Amy, of Frenchtown, NJ; two granddaughters, Diane and Erica Stanley; one brother, Dick Stanley and his wife, Alta, of Lineville, IA; his former wife, Barbara Skinner Stanley of Princeton, IL; and by other relatives and friends.

Mr. Stanley was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Harold Stanley; and five sisters, Doris Robinson, Pauline Wiggins, Florence Rush, Virginia Fowlkes and Catherine O’Brien.