Stanley S. Ward | PGN editor, 67

Stanley S. Ward, 67, of Parsippany, N.J., editor of Philadelphia Gay News from 1983 to 1988, died of complications of a stroke Sunday, Aug. 22, at Troy Hills Nursing Center in Parsippany.

Born in Bristol, Va., he graduated from high school in Roanoke in 1960 and earned a bachelor's degree in English at Duke University in 1965.

A former business partner, Lynn Bergesen, said that he later earned a doctorate in English literature at Harvard University.

Bergesen said that Mr. Ward was an English instructor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh in the early 1970s; at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1976; and at Ferrum (Va.) College from 1977 to 1981.

Mr. Ward was a part-time English instructor at what is now the University of the Arts from 1981 to 2007, Bergesen said, and a part-time composition instructor at Temple University in the early 1980s.

A Philadelphia firm published two volumes of his poetry, Crookshank in 1981 and Virgil's Lovers in 1982, Bergesen said.

Mr. Ward was a partner with Bergesen and her husband, David Ursone, in UB Communications from 1987 to 2002.

In 2002, she said, he was an editor at Hanley & Belfus, a Philadelphia publisher of medical journals, and until 2007 an editor at its successor, the Philadelphia office of the Reed Elsevier P.L.C. firm.

There are no survivors and no services.