Doris Arlene (Dee) (Lloyd) Stoddard |
| Posted 2009-09-07 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ June 7, 2006, p. A11 Doris Arlene (Dee Lloyd) Stoddard passed away June 1 in Surprise, Ariz. She heroically fought a year-long battle with cancer. She was born at home, west of Mesa, Colo., on Nov. 14, 1931 when her father pulled the doctor in on a makeshift sled behind his saddle horse though the drifting snowstorm. She was the daughter of Walter R. (Dick) Lloyd and Bertha Alberta Robinson Johnson of Mesa, Colo. She was raised on the Lloyd Ranch on the Grand Mesa. She attended Grand Junction High School, Mesa State College, and Colorado State University in Fort Collins. She married Rodney William Frary, and they had one son William Richard Frary. They divorced and she married Roy Kenneth Stoddard from Denver (49 years ago) in Mesa, who adopted Bill. They lived and worked in Colorado and for a time lived on the Navajo Reservation near Mexican Hat, Utah. Eastern Colorado was where Dee worked for the Record Stockman, and they both managed a country club there and also in Kansas. They moved to California, and she was active with many newspapers and became very successful with oils and watercolors, managing art galleries and showing her artwork, eventually owning a gallery in California. After they retired and moved back to the ranch in Colorado, she was active in raising and breeding Silky terriers, llamas and alpacas, and rode her Quarterhorse. They moved to Wickenburg, Ariz., in 2002 for health and a warmer climate. She had been active in the Wickenburg Art Club, the American Kennel Club, and the Alpaca and Llama Breeders Association, as well as a member of the American Quarterhorse Association and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Dee is survived by her husband Roy of Wickenburg, Ariz.; son Bill of Mesa, Colo., and Congress, Ariz.; grandsons Marshall Richard Stoddard and family of Clifton, Colo., and Kyle Lloyd Stoddard of Mesa, Colo.; brother Harold Richard Lloyd of Molina, Colo.; his son Eric Lloyd and family in Molina, Colo.; sister-in-law Rosie Lloyd of Wickenburg and her son Alex Lloyd and his family in Wickenburg. A memorial service will be held Friday (June 9) at 10 a.m. at the Wickenburg Funeral Home. Arrangements under the direction of Wickenburg Funeral Home. See Also: Roy (Husband) |
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