Dale T. Lloyd was a Civil War buff eager to be part of a modern-day conflict. He joined the Army in July 2000 after graduating from high school in Watsontown, Pa., and had planned to attend college in the fall. Lloyd wanted to be a teacher.
“He had everything figured out,” said Amy Bell Beaver, his mother. Lloyd, 22, died July 19 in a mortar attack in Iskandariyah, Iraq. His father, Richard Lloyd, had e-mailed his son just hours before. The younger man was proud and excited that he was soon to become a squad leader and would be responsible for more men. He had been home for two weeks in late June and early July.
“He didn’t sleep much during that time,” his mother said. “It’s almost like he was trying to live the last part of his life.” The day before he left for Iraq, Richard Lloyd drove his son to Fort Drum, N.Y., where the younger man was stationed. Dale told him he had an awful toothache but didn’t want to miss the deployment. “Dad, I can put up with the pain,” he told his father.
Dale Lloyd Obituary
July 19, 2004
Sgt. Dale Thomas Lloyd, 22, of River Road, Watsontown, was killed in action on July 19, 2004, in Anbar Province, Iraq.
Sgt. Lloyd was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on June 26, 1982, a son of Dick Lloyd of Thornhurst and Amy Beaver and his stepfather Willis Beaver of Watsontown. He was a 2000 graduate of Warrior Run High School and has served in the Army for the past four years.
Surviving, in addition to his parents, are four brothers, his twin brother, Scott Lloyd of Thornhurst; Richard Lloyd of Bethlehem; Robert Lloyd of Thornhurst; and Michael Lloyd of Thornhurst; a sister, Tamara Hoffman of Watsontown; maternal grandmother, Bernice Bell of Kingston; and step-grandparents, Helen and Willis W. Beaver of Watsontown.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Robert Richard Lloyd.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 26, at 8 p.m. at the St. Joseph Church, 109 Broadway, Milton. Officiating will be the Rev. Thomas A. Scala. Burial will be made in the Fern Knoll Burial Park, Dallas, on Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Friends and relatives will be received at the church on Monday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The family requests no flowers. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Disabled American Veterans, in memory of Sgt. Dale T. Lloyd, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-0301, where they will be used for servicemen injured in the Iraq war.
Arrangements are under the care of the Shaw Funeral Home, 400 N. Front St., Milton, PA
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