Obituary of Lloyd Levy

Levy, Lloyd Deward, born September 29, 1918, died November 14, 2006, son of miller and farmers, Stanley and Elsie (Eisenhauer) Levy. Lloyd, also a farmer, lived in Black River with the exception of four years of WWII army service in Italy, France, Belgium and Holland and one year in Spirit River, Alberta, where wife, Ruby (Schofield), taught during his recovery from heart failure. Lloyd attended school in Black River until grade six, when trustees falsely blamed and expelled him for stuffing the chimney and smoking out the school. He helped his father on the farm and at various mills until becoming a dairy and mixed farmer himself on Sunken Lake Road. Lloyd also worked as a road foreman for the Department of Transportation until a major health set-back in the early sixties. In later years he farmed beef and worked in the woods with frequent able help of sons, Brian (Pat) Black River, Richard (Valerie), Hebbville, Laurie (Judy) White Rock and hay season help of his loyal grandchildren. Lloyd lived with daughter Emily (Ian Purdy), Black River and their children at the home place for his last years. He was predeceased by his parents, wife Ruby, in 1994, sister, Merle (Ted) Schofield, brothers: Ivan and Arnel and long tome friend and neighbor, Hazel Smith. Surviving are his children, his grandchildren: Skye, Shay and Ceilidh (Purdy) Robbie and Kyle, Elliott, Alison and Vance, Angela and Kori, great granddaughter Roah, his sister Ida Mae Smith (Ken) of White Rock and brothers, Orin (Greta) of Wolfville Ridge and Charlton (Marie) of Melanson. Special gratitude is giver to Mildred (Leonard) Levy and family without whose help Lloyd's final years would have been much less full. Visitation will be 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday (today) at the Annapolis Valley Funeral Home, 34 Coldbrook Village Park Drive, Coldbrook (Exit 14). Funeral service will be Friday at 2:00 p.n. from the Gaspereau Baptist Church. Rev. Mark Shaw and Pastor Terry Choyce officiating. Burial will immediately follow at the Black River Cemetery. Donations in Lloyd's memory may be made to the Nova Scotia Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Diabetes Association or to a charity of choice. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Annapolis Valley Funeral Home, Coldbrook. Online condolences may be made through www.annapolisvalleyfuneralhome.com