Please join us to celebrate the life of Robert Glenn Crosen III (Glenn) on Saturday, July 18th, 2026. More details to follow closer to the event.

In Loving Memory of Glenn

Robert Glenn Crosen III (Glenn) passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving wife and three daughters on Sunday, October 12, 2025 in Portland near his home in Standish, Maine.

To everyone who had the great fortune to know him, Glenn was a kind and gentle soul with the innate ability and brain power to tackle any problem that came his way. He was an eternal optimist, with a depth of wisdom that few can tap into as he did with ease. He was a wonderful friend, a patient and encouraging mentor, a caring husband, and the best girl dad. He had his father’s sincere blue eyes, his mother’s sweet smile, and a quick wit with a dad joke always at the ready. He was a kid at heart, and found it easy to share that joy and bring out the best in everyone whose lives he touched.

The son of Robert Glenn Crosen, Jr., and Joyce Hancock Crosen, he was born March 4, 1958. Glenn grew up with his elder sister, Jane, in Cumberland, Maine, near Portland where his father worked as a bonding specialist at Fidelity & Deposit. The family enjoyed traveling, and spent every summer at their beloved family camp on Beech Hill Pond in Otis, Maine—a tradition which Glenn continued happily with his own family.

From an early age, Glenn just knew how things worked. Accepting real tools only and not toy tools, Glenn’s childhood was full of taking apart various appliances (to his mother’s dismay) and putting them back together working better than before (to his mother’s great relief). Glenn was an adept, self-taught student of life, and his passion for learning and problem solving was contagious.

After graduating from Greely High School in 1976, Glenn attended Southern Maine Community College where he completed a two-year program studying to be an electrician. It would probably have come as quite the surprise to his future colleagues that this was the extent of Glenn’s college education, considering the vast amount of knowledge, expertise, and ingenuity he had in his long career. Glenn naturally gravitated towards the field of information and technology. He began working at Lock (which has since become Ricoh) in 1978 as a copy machine field technician, and continued to teach himself the ins and outs of computers, coding, and data throughout his 47-year career at Ricoh, becoming an invaluable asset to his teams and a beloved mentor to many.

Glenn’s interest in all things technology led him to help the local church with lighting for their musical performances, where they overheard him singing along to the musical numbers and learned his talents didn’t extend to lighting equipment alone. He soon found himself performing solo on stage, his turn in the limelight—but it was a local girl who really caught his attention among all the performances, his soul mate, Nancy Nelson (who made him ask her out twice). It was love at first sight for Glenn, who was more than ready to help Nancy with her horses, buy a house for her, and live a happy life with his best friend and wife.

Nancy and Glenn married in 1981 and began building out their first home in Limington, Maine, doing most improvements together. Like his father, Glenn was a talented woodworker and skillful at plumbing and electrical work, putting that to good use in each of their homes. Their moves would take them from Limington to Standish, Maine, and later to West Chester, Pennsylvania for Glenn’s work, and again back in Standish in Nancy’s mother’s home on Sebago Lake where they had planned to retire and spend their days on the beach and in Glenn’s beautiful new boat. The two loved to travel, and were fortunate enough to enjoy many adventures together throughout their marriage.

Glenn and Nancy welcomed three daughters, Kelsey, Megan, and Molly, and grew a family full of love and joy. They made sure to eat together every night at the dinner table, a tradition that Glenn reflected on fondly and with great pride at the end of his life, believing firmly that not many people are as lucky to spend as much time together and learn to communicate, laugh, and work through life together in that way. Though Glenn was often called away to work, he was always present, ready to play video games with his girls, and gave them every opportunity for travel and learning that he could. Glenn was a patient, kind, and loving father who never missed a single father-daughter dance, even if it meant racing through the airport to catch a flight home in time to dance with his girls.  Through every academic achievement, arts and craft project, heartbreak, career move, and more, he was always there as a grounding force and solid foundation to listen, give gentle advice, and reaffirm his great pride in all of his girls.

 
He and Nancy set a brilliant example of love that continues in their daughters’ lives with granddaughters, Fiona (of Kelsey and Thomas), Maeve and Penelope (of Megan and Patrick), and will undoubtedly be in the hearts of Molly and Brian’s family as they grow. He was the beloved fun uncle of his niece and nephew, Mackenzie and Ben Nelson (of Tracey and Jim) and was always thrilled to take them tubing and include them in every family gathering.

Glenn will be deeply, deeply missed by his wife Nancy Crosen, daughters Kelsey Crosen Osborne (Thomas) of Allentown, Pennsylvania; Megan Hallosen (Patrick) of Redding, Connecticut; Molly Crosen Stanley (Brian/Stan) of Oxford, Maine; granddaughters Fiona, Maeve, and Penelope; sister Jane Crosen Washburn (Richard) of Penobscot, Maine; extended family, friends, and colleagues.

Glenn and his family express their heartfelt thanks to the Maine Medical Center critical care staff for their loving and kind care and support at the end of Glenn’s life. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made on Glenn’s behalf to Habitat for Humanity. Condolences and memories may be shared with friends and family here.