Donald Eugene Lloyd

Donald Eugene Lloyd was born in McPherson, KS on April 10,1932, to Ivan and Annabelle Lloyd. He grew up in Wichita, KS, graduating from Wichita High School East in 1950. He attended Kansas University under a Navy ROTC scholarship, graduating in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a Navy commission as an Ensign.

Following graduation he married Patricia Joyce Olds of Tulsa, OK, and they moved subsequently to Pensacola, FL where Don served as a flight instructor at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. Their first daughter, Kathleen, was born at the NAS Pensacola Naval Hospital, and a second daughter, Christine, was born in 1959 at Porter Hospital in Denver, after they had left the Navy and moved to Littleton.

Don was employed at Beech Aircraft Corp. in Wichita in 1958 upon leaving the Navy, and then at The Martin Company in Littleton in 1959, where he worked as a group engineer in ground support equipment for the Titan I, II, and III missile systems. He moved to Ball Brothers Research Corp. in Boulder in 1967, (subsequently Ball Aerospace Systems), where he was employed as a project manager for 27 years until his retirement in 1994. He managed programs producing the Mars Viking Orbiter camera system, the Cosmic Background Explorer Dewar, and the coronagraph replacement electronics for the Solar Maximum Repair Mission.

Don and his family joined St. Paul’s UMC in 1968, where he served as chairman of the Trustees and the Administrative Council, before becoming chairman of the Finance Committee, which he continued for the next 20 years.

Don is survived by two daughters, Kathleen Lloyd of Boulder, and Christine [Edgar] Schwartz of Parker, CO, granddaughter Tiara [Mike] Pearce and great granddaughter Cali of Aurora, CO, grandson Wyatt (Vicki) Schwartz, and great grandsons Adam and Michael Schwartz, and great granddaughter Evelyn of Greeley, CO

A memorial service will be held at St. Paul’s UMC in Boulder, 4215 Grinnell Ave. on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 11:00 AM.

The committal with Military Honors will be held at Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 S. Sheridan Blvd., Denver, CO 80236 on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 1:15 PM - Committal Shelter "C".