Gordon was born 27 Sep 1935 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, the second child of Raymond Errol Lloyd and Ellen Lucille Gardner. He joined an older brother Clair. Grandpa Ray had found a job with the railroad in San Bruno, California, as he was trying to climb out of the depression and provide for his family. When Gordon was about six months of age, the family relocated to San Bruno and lived only a few blocks from where the future Candlestick Park would be built. There, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Gordon would spend the majority of his life.

About 1949, Gordon moved with his family to Milbrae, California, just up the hill form the San Francisco Airport. He attended San Mateo High School and graduated from there in 1953. He had many close friends during those years and one in particular, Dennis Dorny, became one of his closest friends and life long hunting and fishing partner. When I was a young boy, as we would visit the grandparents in Milbrae, dad would point out where he shot his first goose, down in a pasture by the bay where the United Airlines hanger then stood. One Christmas morning he and Dennis went down to the bay to shoot ducks and after getting a lucky shot, he talked Dennis into swimming out into the bay to retrieve the bird. We always had a good laugh about that story.

Dad attended BYU for the 1954-1955 school year and while visiting with Dennis up at Dennis' grandmothers home in Syracuse, Utah, a car load of girls on their way home from high school, stopped to chat. When the girls left, the one in the middle of the back seat, turned around and put her books up in the back window, gazing back at dad and Dennis. Dad asked Dennis, "Who's the girl in the middle of the back seat?" Dennis knew most of the girls in Syracuse and he remarked according to dad, "that's one of those wild Rampton Girls". Well, he and mom (Karen Rampton) began dating and by the time she graduated from high school, they were engaged to be married. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on 6 Oct 1955. Grandpa Rampton told dad as he and mom were getting ready to drive back to California to begin their life together, "hell Gordon, I hope you have a can opener". That was a big change for mom to go from being just out of high school to suddenly being a wife and just a year later a new mother. They would become the parents of four children.

Dad went back to school at San Francisco State with the intent to become a high school industrial arts teacher with a focus on wood shop. To support his young family, he secured a job at Interstate Motor Lines, working nights in their loading docks, and later as the one who backed in the trucks and trailers to be loaded and unloaded. He worked nights so he could attend school during the day. In about 1960, dad and mom bought their first home in Pacifica at 1083 View Way and dad continued with his schooling and working hard. I remember getting up to watch Saturday morning cartoons and dad would come home after a long week with a box of donuts for Vicki, mom and I and he would head off to bed for some much needed rest. Dad graduated from San Francisco State in 1962 and I remember attending his graduation at the Cow Palace. He did his student teaching at Terra Nova High School in Pacifica.

Dad got his first teaching position at Washington High School in Fremont, California in 1963 and taught there until John F. Kennedy High School opened in the fall of 1965. He remained there for the rest of his career. Dad taught wood shop for the majority of the years he taught at Kennedy. He was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker and could construct anything out of wood. He perfected the art of making laminated recurve bows, and over the years many many students built bows and he would take the students to the range to instruct them and teach them to shoot. Throughout the 1960's and early 1970's dad belonged to many archery clubs and was a archery merit badge counselor for the boy scouts. One of dad's great passions was also hunting, particularly bird hunting. He took many young men from his school classes that wanted to hunt, along with us on our various duck hunting trips. He was very well respected by the students he had as many of them to this day still kept in contact with him.

When dad became a teacher, the teamsters union that he belonged to while working at Interstate informed him that he would have to choose which profession to pursue as he couldn't do both. Naturally he choose teaching but as a result he took a 50% reduction in his annual pay. Those first few years he taught school were a bit on the lean side but dad worked lots of other jobs to pay the bills. He working teaching summer school, taught night school to adults, he worked for friends who were in the construction business doing interior trim during the summers. He also worked at the county fair many years manning a gate. Dad was just one hard worker!

Dad served many years at church in various callings. For about a ten year span from 1974 thru the mid 1980's, dad was a Bishop's counsellor and then served as Bishop of his local church ward.

After his teaching career, he and mom moved to Brentwood, California where they lived many years until just a couple years ago, due to advancing heath problems they relocated to St. Anthony, Idaho. Dad passed away in St. Anthony on 7 Jul 2023. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Clair, best friend Dennis, and his dear wife Karen, his daughter Vicki Ellen, and his granddaughter Lauren Ellen. Also by his many many Labrador retrievers including his favorite, Buck.

Gordon is survived by a sister, Norlene Adams of Fallon, Nevada; a sister-in-law Sue Burleson of Gastonia, North Carolina; his sons, Scott (Cathy) Lloyd of Orem, Utah; Jeff (Maggie) Lloyd of Jasper, Tennessee; son-in-law Tom Bacciocco of Queen Creek, Arizona; a daughter Kari (Christian) Airth of Rexburg Idaho. Grandchildren, Kelli (Justin) Jeffs, Jill Mendoza, Jennifer (Chad) Molen, Eric (Paige) Lloyd, Steven (Whitney) Lloyd, Kyle (Becky) Lloyd, Matt (Sammi) Lloyd, Michael Airth, Sam (Lily) Airth, Cameron (Ally) Airth, Lily Airth, Charley Airth, Nick Lloyd and Daniel Lloyd. Also survived by 22 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on 26 Jul 2023 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, located at 810 East 600 North, Orem, Utah, with burial to follow at the Orem City Cemetery.

Service will be live streamed at: https://my.gather.app/remember/gordon-lloyd