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Area News Reporter Stan Chambers Remembered

Stan Chambers in an image from the KTLA-TV film on the veteran news reporter who passed away last week.
Stan Chambers in an image from the KTLA-TV film on the veteran news reporter who passed away last week.

Area newsman and long-time Windsor Square resident Stan Chambers is being remembered fondly by friends from across our neighborhood.

Chambers on the scene of a fire. Photo from the LA County Fire Department.
Chambers on the scene of a fire. Photo from the LA County Fire Department.

Chambers was a familiar face to millions of Angelenos who watched him on KTLA-TV Channel 5 for more than 60 years, and to residents of the Windsor Square and Larchmont Village areas where he and his first wife Beverly raised a family of eleven children on Windsor Boulevard.

Columnist Patt Morrison remembered him in a piece in the LA Times this week as a “gentleman of the press”, a colleague of sweet disposition who was wedded to his city in providing solid coverage of local and national news.

KTLA released the short film, below, that shares some of the significant events he covered over his 63 years. It’s wonderful to see him grow from young cub reporter to respected newsman, all while covering some of the most memorable stories to hit Los Angeles over the last half century.

 

Chambers’ first wife, Beverly, died of cancer in 1989. He is survived by his second wife, Gege Elder Chambers, whom he married in 1990; 11 children, 38 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren from his first marriage; and Elder’s three children and seven grandchildren.

 

 

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Julie Grist
Julie Grist
Julie co-founded the Larchmont Buzz with fellow buzzer Mary Hawley in 2011 and served as Editor, Publisher and writer for the hive for many years until the sale of the Buzz in August 2015. She is still circling the hive as an occasional writer.

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