Coda

Article looking back at Stanger's career. (Virginian-Pilot, 2005)

By the mid 2000s Stanger was in semi-retirement while keeping an active social life in Hampton Roads.

Russell Stanger in 2009 (Stephanie Oberlander, Virginian-Pilot).

In 2009 Stanger took up residence at The Ballentine Home in Norfolk where he lived out his final years. He passed peacefully on January 7, 2015.