A. Stanley Cross Jr. ’42

A. Stanley Cross Jr. ’42, of Colfax, N.C., formerly of North Attleboro and Pittsfield, Mass.; May 16 at 100 years of age. While working for G.E. he was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He worked on uranium enrichment and met his future wife, who was also employed at Oak Ridge. At the end of World War II, they married and moved to Pittsfield, Mass. He spent most of his career working for Englehard Corp., where he held positions as a metals specialist, a sales manager, and a production plant manager. While raising their family, they were transferred to North Attleboro, Mass., in 1972. He retired in 1986 and relocated to North Carolina before moving to Colfax in 2011. He was an avid reader of history and enjoyed genealogy, bird watching, sailing, nature photography, and stamp collecting. He is survived by daughter Ellen Wilson ’74; a son; two daughters-in-law; two sons-in-law; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.