Stanley Moyer

Stan Moyer, 71, died on August 12, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona after a brief illness. Stan was born in Abilene, Texas to Patricia Krecker Moyer and Alan Dean Moyer on November 16, 1954. Stan’s father, a journalist, and his mother, a chemist, moved with Stan and his older sister Ginny and younger brother Glenn from Texas to Ohio, Kansas, and finally to Arizona. Stan graduated from Arizona State University in 1976, with a degree in business, and the distinction of being a nationally ranked table tennis player. After moving to Chicago for work, he suffered a severe head injury in a car crash and moved back to Arizona for his recovery. Following in his journalist father’s footsteps, he wrote for  several news publications; and following his father’s love of truck transport, he became a long-haul truck driver as well. Stan was an avid bicycle rider, putting in many hundreds of miles each year at home and in the cities he traveled to as a trucker. After his parents built a summer home in southern Colorado, Stan moved to Alamosa, Colorado, riding his bicycle nearly every day, in all types of weather, for the decade he lived in there. In 2021, he joined his mother and father as well as his brother and his family in Tucson. He was also an avid reader and fan of classic jazz. His intense enthusiasms and deep interest in his passions made him a completely unique person. Stan was predeceased by his father (in 2023), and mother (in 2025), and is survived by his sister, Ginny Tucker (Jim) and brother, Glenn Moyer (Johanna), one niece and five nephews. Along with those of his parents, his ashes will be scattered in his beloved Colorado at a later date. Donations in his memory may be made to his favorite radio station, KJZZ, or to High Country News magazine.