Services Set for Ex-Road & Track Editor James Crow
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Memorial services will be held Dec. 10 for James T. Crow of Newport Beach, former editor of Road & Track magazine.
Crow, 65, died Nov. 29 at Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital in Newport Beach. He had been ill a short time.
Crow joined the editorial staff of Newport Beach-based Road & Track in 1963, and was chief editor from 1966 until 1972. He then founded Pickup, Van & 4-Wheel Drive magazine, also in Newport Beach. In 1974, he became a free-lance writer for a variety of automotive periodicals.
Born Dec. 6, 1922, Crow was raised in Illinois. After service in the Army during World War II, he attended the University of Wisconsin.
He is survived by his wife, Joyce, and a sister, Wanda King of San Francisco.
Services will be at 11 a.m. at Lookout Point, which overlooks Corona del Mar State Beach.
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