Lloyd, Robert

Passed:

Age: 62

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1940-09-06

Information: Despondent because of ill health and his failure to get a teacher's pension, Robert L. Lloyd, 62 year old teacher, arose about 6 o'clock Sunday morning and went to the kitchen of his home where he fired a bullet from a .25 caliber automatic pistol into his brain.  He died about three hours later in the Priddy hospital from the wound inflicted.  Mr. Lloyd was a well-known citizen of the county and for 37 years taught in the schools of Jackson and other counties of the state.  Four years ago while teaching at War, McDowell County, he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered and was never able to resume teaching work.  Members of the family said that for the past three or four weeks he had been despondent and on several occasions he threatened to take his life but each time they reasoned with him and he had given up the idea.  He is survived by three children, Robert L. Lloyd Jr., Murriel Jean Lloyd and Mary Gathel Lloyd, all at home; one brother, John Lloyd, and two sisters, Flo Lloyd and Georgia Lloyd, all of Ravenswood.  Funeral and burial services were held in Ravenswood.