Roland Garrett Lloyd

I, Roland G. Lloyd, was born near a small town called Elana in Roane County, West Virginia on February 8, 1941 at my grandfather Lloyd’s home.  I lived at my grandfather Lloyd’s home for about four years and while there, my sister Mary was born.  Later, my family moved to Nebo in Calhoun County West Virginia, where I started school and my brother Randall “Buck” was born.  We lived in Nebo for about a year and then moved to the Shafer family farm at Mud Fork where my mother grew up and lived before her marriage. Our family lived on the Shafer farm at Mud Fork until 1951, then we moved to Stebbins Street in Creston, Ohio.

We moved to Creston for my father to get a job and allow the family to have a better life. I went to grade school in Creston beginning in the fourth grade and graduated from Norwayne High School in 1959.  I worked a few odd jobs after high school and then worked in the oilfields on the drilling rigs for Red Armstrong Drilling Company of Wooster, Ohio. I got married to Cheryl Burton in July 1963.  We moved into a mobile home next to Creston Elementary School.  Cheryl and I had two daughters, Tammy Sue and Tina Kaye while living in Creston.  I started working at Ford Motor Company in Brookpark and started an apprenticeship in pipefitting. In 1969 we moved to Sterling where our son Todd Garrett was born. In 1977, we moved to Homeville in Medina county.  Our three children went to and graduated from Cloverleaf High School.  During the middle 1980s, both of our daughters got married.  Tina Kaye married Randy Jarvis and Tammy Sue married Brian Starkey.

In 1987 my wife Cheryl and I went our separate ways.  I rented an apartment in Chippewa Lake until Todd could graduate from high school.  Todd went to Ohio University, graduated cum laude, and married Julie Crozier.  They moved to warmer winters in Tucson, Arizona.  Our daughter, Tina had gone to Medina Career Center and became a licensed cosmetologist.  Tammy went to Kent State University, graduated cum laude in Education, and teaching became her career.   I congratulate all three of my children on their work ethic and the way they lived their lives.

Nancy Murphy and I were married in May of 1988.  I continued to work at Ford in Brookpark until retiring in 2004, due to Nancy’s medical condition of type 2 diabetes.  I cared for Nancy until 2009 at home until she had to enter a nursing facility in Medina Ohio. She passed in the year of 2012.  I continued living in Chippewa Lake until March of 2023.  On March 1 of 2023, I moved to Brookdale Wooster Assisted Living and found contentment in the care of great people.

My survivors are:  three good - excellent- children and their spouses:

Tammy Sue and spouse Brian Starkey,  Tina Kaye and spouse Randy Jarvis and Todd Garrett and spouse Julie Crozier.  I have a step- daughter-in-law, Nicole Murphy.

I have seven grandchildren: Valerie and spouse Jake Schwartfigure, Quinn Starkey, Kayla and spouse Russell Hinds, Joshua and spouse Melanie Jarvis, Abby and spouse Austin Conine, Tommy Lloyd and Ethan Murphy.

I have five great-grandchildren, Zoey Schwartfigure, Aria Schwartfigure, Zackary Jarvis, Blake Hinds and Luka Hinds

I have two sisters as survivors:  Mary Tanner of Burbank, Ohio and Denise Lloyd of Miami Beach, Florida.

My wife Nancy Marie, step-son Shawn Murphy, my father Russell Ralph Lloyd, my mother Mary Louise Lloyd, my brother, Randall (Buck) Lynn Lloyd, as well as my first wife Cheryl Carolyn Burton preceded me in death.

God has let me have a good life, three excellent children and a growing family.  He has provided me with a good job that allowed me to provide a home and the necessities of life for my family.  I have had several bumps in the road and a couple of the bumps were big and rough.  In all, I was blessed with a good life.

Services will be Monday, April 7th at 11:00 a.m. at Murray Funeral Home in Creston.  Burial will be in Sherwood Memorial Gardens.  Friends may call on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at the funeral home.  The family extends their deepest appreciation to the staff of Brookdale of Wooster and Wooster Community Hospital for their wonderful care given to their father.