James Prothroe Lloyd
January 18, 1926 - April 2025
Mr Lloyd lived a long and amazing life and will be great missed by so many! I remember him from John Muir Jr High School in Burbank California as the Boy's Vice Principal. His older brother Ham Lloyd I knew as a Counselor at Burbank High School. Ham passed away in 2013. We lift up our prayers for all the Lloyd family.
John Muir Jr High Highlander Yearbook 1963
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Sunday morning at church we learned of the passing of our beloved and dear Burbank First United Methodist Church family member Jim Lloyd
Tears flowed and stories told of our many connections with Jim. He turned 99 last January. We sang Happy Birthday to him on MLK breakfast with Burbank Human Relations Council. It was perfect as Jim Lloyd was a shining example of how we should live our lives in service to each other and how lives can be changed for the better by developing relationships.
Tears flowed and stories told of our many connections with Jim. He turned 99 last January. We sang Happy Birthday to him on MLK breakfast with Burbank Human Relations Council. It was perfect as Jim Lloyd was a shining example of how we should live our lives in service to each other and how lives can be changed for the better by developing relationships. In his case, through 30 plus years as an educator for Burbank Unified School District, the Magnolia Park Optimists and countless other examples. He started teaching in 1950 at Mingay Elementary as an intermediate level teacher, probably 5th or 6th grades. Then he was a PE teacher at Dolores Huerta Middle School(Junior High back in day). Then he was AP at Muir for a few years before going to John Burroughs High School as Boys VP for over twenty years. He retired in 1985. While he was at JBHS his brother Ham Lloyd was his counterpart at BHS. What a dynasty of service to our students! But it didn’t stop there.
His beloved wife Gail taught preschool, sister in law Jane taught elementary, daughter Deanna teaches in our Mommy & Me program at the Burbank Adult School and grandson Brendan Jennings is the Director of the JBHS Vocal Music Association! You always saw Jim with daughters Deanna Jennings and or Donna Lloyd in the audience for Brendan’s concerts and shows every year!
A fine singer himself he sang in the choir for BFUMC and dearest to my heart, until Covid, he showed up every Sunday morning to help set up coffee hour. At my class reunions there was always talk about how he had taken a boy at loose ends and steered them in the right direction toward manhood.
Along with our tears Sunday morning there was we knew, a great rejoicing in Heaven as he was welcomed by Gail, Ham, Jane & Jesus. Well done good and faithful servant was never more true
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