Roy Roger Galvan

On December 19, 2022, an extraordinary, compassionate, and generous man, Roy Roger Galvan, passed away, in San Antonio, Texas. Roy always looked on the brighter side of life and lived in the positive. He graduated from Burbank High School in 1978 where he made life-long friends, as a member of the Buckheads. Roy loved sports, especially the Dallas Cowboys football team, that led to an athletic trainer’s scholarship to Pan American University where he attended to the University’s soccer, baseball and both men and women’s basketball programs. Roy was then recruited by basketball coach Buddy Meyer at St. Mary’s University. As the University’s full-time student trainer, he headed up the school’s entire sports medicine program for two years.

Roy then found a passion for communications studies, music, (especially, The Beatles) and storytelling. Early in his media career, he deejayed for KSYM, KSJL and KZEP radio stations in San Antonio. As a broadcaster he worked as a news director, news anchor, reporter, videographer and editor. Roy’s 25-year broadcasting career took him to Amarillo, Midland, El Paso, Houston, Tucson and finally San Antonio, where he became the station’s first investigative Trouble Shooter reporter.

He met the love of his life, Di Galvan, while working at KMOL-TV (now WOAI-TV), and on January 1, 2000, they were married on “live” television during News 4’s coverage of Celebrate San Antonio at the stroke of midnight. During his broadcast career with KMOL-TV, Roy covered numerous stories across the state, however he truly enjoyed reporting on the inauguration of former President George W. Bush “live” in Washington, D.C. He was also one of the first San Antonio reporters to broadcast “live” in New York City following the tragedy of 9-1-1. His broadcasting career then transitioned into the area of building healthy communities through affordable housing with Merced Housing Texas before retiring as a communications specialist for CPS Energy.

Roy was a talented artist, who was a skilled ceramist, sculptor, and painter. He was featured on HGTV’s Look What I Did program featuring his blue mosaic dining room ceiling. Roy’s creativity was inspired by his travel adventures with his wife Di, who together traversed the world together to see the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, hot-air ballooned over the Atlas mountains near Marrakesh, Morocco, spent Halloween in a Romanian Transylvania castle, attended a Paul McCartney concert in Liverpool, England and renewed their vows on their 15th wedding anniversary at the lighting of the John Lennon Peace Tower in Iceland.

Roy was born on March 1, 1960, in San Antonio, Texas, to Joe V. Galvan and Benigna Guadarrama Galvan. He was preceded in death by his parents, and brothers, Richard Galvan, Robert Galvan, and Roland Galvan. Roy is survived by his loving and adoring wife of 22 years Di Galvan; brother Joe Galvan; brothers-in-law, Oscar and Sebastian Sanchez De Los Santos, brother-in-law Ramiro Garcia and sister-in-law Cyndie Garcia, as well as Godson Max Arthur Dulany, many beloved nieces, nephews, sisters-in-laws, and numerous cousins and close friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the American Cancer Society –fight Brain Cancer. They further request that you have a cold beer in Roy’s honor at a future Dallas Cowboy’s game. Roy will be greatly missed by the many lives he so profoundly touched.

CELEBRATION OF ROY’S LIFE – Beatles TributeJANUARY 3, 20226:30 PMThe Spire @ St. Paul’s Square230 N. Center Street – San Antonio, Texas