Obit of Leddy, Loyd Wilson - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 2 Apr 2006 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Galt Cemetery--Galt CA Surnames: Leddy, Weeks, Ross, Pigg, Hillman, Archer, Lacy, Hill, Walker Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6745 Loyd Wilson Leddy was born November 13, 1911 at the Leddy Homestead to Alpha Thomas Leddy and Nancy Lida Weekss Leddy. He passed away February 18, 2006 in Galt, California at the age of 90. Services were February 23, 2006 at the Lutheran Faith Fellowship, officiated by Pastor Eeugene Kruetz. He was buried in the Galt Cemetery under the direction of Walt Scheffer Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home. Loyd was born and raised seven miles east of Roll, Oklahoma. He was saved at the Crawford Magnolia Baptist Church in 1973 and baptized at Cheyenne Baptist Church by the late Bro. Lloyd Maartin. He attended church all of his life and as a child went to church in a wagon and later by horseback. He attended church at the Baptist Church in Galt, California. Loyd had cerebral palsy and was not able to drive a car but spent many hours driving around in his golf cart. Loyd was married to Juanita Ross in Cheyenne, Oklahoma on July 29, 1939. To this union three children were born, Max Leddy, Mike Leddy and Dianas Gail Leddy. Loyd and Juanita spent their last years together in a nursing home. He worked on the farm growing up chopping cotton, stripping cane, snapped cotton, and milked cows. He loved to hunt and fish. He farmed in Oklahoma before moving to White Deer, Texas where he worked at the school then moved to California. Loyd enjoyed helping others and dearly loved his grandchildren and he will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife Juanita; daughter Diana Gail and husband James Pigg and sons Max Leddy and wife Bettie and Mike Leddy and wife Jolene; grandchildren Teresa and Grank; Debra and Joe; Jennifer and Joe; James, Cheryl and Daniel; Benita and Clayton, Jerry, Michelle, Madison, Kiara, Alexia, Chris and Eric, all of Galt and Lodi, California; one sister Minnie Leddy Hillman of Cheyenne, Oklahoma and a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. He waas preceded in death by his parents, three sisters, Vida Archer, Nona Lacy Hill and Seaneth Walker and their husbands and four brothers, Hosea, Ollie, A.T. and Raymond and sisters-in-law Deltha Leddy, Thelma Leddy, Lennie Leddy and Lena Leddy. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 16-Mar-2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html