Lloyd Wray Parker

Lloyd W. Parker was born to Lloyd and Alma Parker on February 10, 1938 in the Danish farm area of Elkhorn, Iowa. He had 3 sisters: Phylis Marshall, Berntina Doonan, and Lorna Kinney and one brother, Roger Parker. Lloyd came along so much later that his sister Phylis was his grade school teacher. He made up games to entertain himself. Games became a big part of his life later. He baled hay to help pay for college. He graduated from Simpson College.

Lloyd joined the Army Reserves. He found a job working for the Forest Service with disease eradication of brucellosis and sheep scabies. The next assignment took him to Chadron, Nebraska. Rapid City, South Dakota was his next job working at a job core center. There he met Sherri Gorsuch and they married. Their daughter, Heather, was born in 1976. As jobs were eliminated in the forest service he was called to Fort Collins, Colorado as a budget analyst. He learned all about spreadsheets. He kept crashing their site so they finally gave him his own computer. As downsizing continued Lloyd was called the Grim Reaper as he traveled to close down stations in North Dakota, New Mexico and Texas.

After retiring, he worked for the Trail Ridge Store for Forever Resorts and Xanterra. He drove the truck up the mountain road with supplies and took down trash and recycling.

Lloyd married Pat Bancroft on October 12th, 1996. They just celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary. They explored places all over the country: hiking, camping, and backpacking. They were blessed to visit every state, except Maine and Alaska. They were blessed with two grandchildren from Heather: Ethan Sargent and Avery Sargent. Lloyd shared four grandchildren with Pat: Christopher and John Bancroft and Benjamin and Katie Gust.

Outside of work, Lloyd had several hobbies that he really enjoyed. He loved to write poems and articles and share them with family and others. Some were published in The Fence Posts. He loved to bowl in tournaments all over the Midwest. He was in a league at CSU. When the flood hit, he donned a hardhat to go in to get his bowling ball and shoes. Pat convinced him to toss the shoes. Bridge tournaments took him all over. He competed in Tucson, Albuquerque, Taos, Phoenix, Gaithersburg, Las Vegas, and Omaha. He reached the rank of Bronze Life Master. He taught bridge and ran a bridge game at the Senior Center for seventeen years.

Lloyd had a positive attitude. Church was important to him. He thoroughly enjoyed studying the Bible. He helped teach a Sunday school class for adults at a Methodist Church in Fort Collins. He helped with a Bible study with fellow workers at the Trail Ridge store. His poems show his daily struggles to live a Christian life. He was generous, but often felt he couldn’t do enough. WWJD was his personal slogan. His most important mission in life was to be a Christian and show how a Christian lives.

A Memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at the Estes Park Senior Citizens Center at 1:00 pm. To leave found memories and condolences for the family to read please visit www.allnuttestespark.com