Lloyd Glenn Moon

As a child Lloyd spent hours exploring the neighborhood playing at the creek, riding horses bareback, and finding small trouble having gotten sidetracked on his walk to elementary school. He showed an early interest in music building his own guitar out of a cigar box as a small child, calling it his “dikadune” for the sound the strings made.

He attended Madison Elementary, Taft Junior High, and NW Classen High School where he graduated in 1965.

Lloyd enlisted in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and served from November, 1967 to July, 1969. He served as Major Command as an AC&W operator. He trained in Biloxi, Mississippi and Fort Lee, Virginia and deployed to Kumejima in the Southern China Sea, working radar call sign.

Returning to OKC, he pursued his love of music with his bands Springwater and Pierce Arrow while continuing to study music and education at OU, UCO, and OCU.

Lloyd began teaching AP English, writing, and literature at North East High School for OKC Public Schools and also taught at Star Spencer High School for the next 30 years. Lloyd both attended and taught at UCO and Southern Oklahoma City Junior College, which later became OCCC.

Seeking a new challenge while teaching full time, he took the LSAT entrance exam for law school after deciding on a whim the night before to do so. Securing one of only seventy-four places, he was admitted to the Oklahoma City Law School and graduated three years later with Juris Doctor of Law.

Lloyd is survived by his wife Candace; daughters Simone and Jenny; son Brandon; three nieces; three nephews; and eleven grandchildren.

Preceded in death by his parents Haskell George and Dovie Moon; his sister Georgia Hutton, and brothers Jimmy and JD.

Lloyd loved not only people, but his treasured pets: Kukla, Kosmo, Pepper, Pertelote, Rosie, Aja, and P-Kitty.

Lloyd loved writing music and lyrics on his treasured Gibson which he bought for himself right after high school, playing music with his many friends, performing for audiences, and enjoying The Craic (an Irish tradition of good company, good conversation, and good entertainment).

On Saturdays, you would either find him in Norman at OU football games or at home following all the college games.

Mondays found him at Belle Isle enjoying pizza and beer with family and friends.

He enjoyed his travels to New Mexico and Colorado to see friends and especially loved adventures on European trip and Mediterranean cruises. Though his idea of going no further than Okarche was just fine, his adventures in Dubrovnik, Barcelona, Switzerland, Florence, Rome, St. Paul de Vence, Brussels, and Naples provided rich and treasured memories. His heart was always with Oklahoma.

Lloyd loved to engage people by following logic and reason instead of emotion when discussing politics, current events, and history.

He held wide ranging interests and knowledge such as cars - Porsche, Corvette, Ford, and Mercury; all genres of music - blues, country, rock and roll; literature -Canterbury Tales in original middle english, Shakespeare, American and English poetry, especially Robert Frost. Also science-fiction - Asimov, Haldeman, Philip Dick, Robertson Davies, and Curt Vonnegut; history - medieval France, European, American from colonial to contemporary, especially Barbara Tuchman’s insights.

Most of all, Lloyd was the most forgiving and kind soul.