Eric McCrossen, a longtime New Mexico journalist and former Albuquerque Journal editorial page editor, died Sunday at his Northeast Heights home. He was 83. McCrossen began his newspaper career at age 11, delivering newspapers for the Santa Fe New Mexican, said his daughter, Cyndy McCrossen. While attending Santa Fe High School, he worked as a printer’s devil at a print shop and then at his father’s engraving plant. Eric McCrossen After graduation, McCrossen served four years in the U.S.