ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. Obituary for: LOYD, LOIS MCINTYRE Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. Source: E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, Covington, La. Died Friday, November 9, 2012 ======================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ======================================================================= NOTE: If a Photo is available for an obituary record, a reference note will be included with the record. =========================================================== LOYD, LOIS MCINTYRE (January 1, 1926 - November 9, 2012) ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/sttammany/obits/dateobits/2012/st1211.htm and click to view list of photos. ========== Lois McIntyre Loyd was born in Bogalusa, LA on January 1, 1926 and passed away peacefully on November 9, 2012. Lois was a homemaker and piano teacher for many years. She was a resident of Covington, LA for 79 years and a resident of Austin, TX for the past seven years. She loved God, her family, her church, and her many friends. Lois was a very loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She will be greatly missed. Lois is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 63 years, Eldon “Chubby” Loyd, her parents, Eugene McIntyre and Anna Belle Hunt McIntyre, a brother, Huey McIntyre, sister –in-law, Evelyn Wright, and brothers-in-law, Ezra Loyd, George Wright and Eddie Heck. She is survived by four children; daughter, Cheryl Barnes and her husband, Greg of Austin, TX; her sons, Lamar Loyd and wife, Sandra of Houston, TX, Darrell Loyd and wife, Kathleen of Dallas, TX, and Byron Loyd and wife, Lisa, of Atlanta, GA. She is also survived by her brother, Eugene McIntyre, Jr., sisters-in-law, Hazel McIntyre, Hazel Heck and Ruth Loyd, nine grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held at Shepherd’s Care Ministries, 20115 Highway 1081, Covington, LA 70435, on Saturday, November 17, 2012, from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm. A celebration of Lois’s homegoing will begin at 1:00 p.m. Following the service, interment will be at Barker-McManus Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer donations be made to Shepherd’s Care Ministries. ===================