Betty Lynn Lloyd (Powers)

Betty Lynn (Powers) Lloyd, 83, Buckner, Mo passed away Feb. 16, 2014. Services will be 11 am, Friday, Feb. 21 at The First Christian Church of Buckner, 126 S. Hudson, Buckner, MO 64016; interment at Buckner Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8 pm, Thursday at Speaks Buckner Chapel, 300 Adams, Buckner, MO 64016. Memorial contributions may be sent to The Fire Creek Wetlands Committee, the First Christian Church of Buckner or the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society ”Team Jack”, Liz & Ray Clause, 1227 Sweetbriar Rd., Madison, WI 53705.. Betty was born Dec. 7, 1930 to Paul Harold & Lottie “Irene” (Foster) Powers in Higginsville, MO. She grew up as Betty Clark and graduated from Odessa High School in 1949 before attending Central Missouri State College from 1949 to 1951. She married David Louis Lloyd of Raytown, MO on Aug. 6, 1951. She taught at Dale Elementary School in Ray County, MO in 1951-52 and taught at the State School for the Mentally Retarded in Richmond, MO from 1962 until 1968. They lived in Lexington, MO from 1956 until 1970. Betty finished her Masters in Education at CMSU in 1968 and taught kindergarten in Lexington Elementary from 1968-70. She moved to Buckner, MO in 1970 and began teaching elementary special education for the Fort Osage School District in Sibley, MO. When that school was closed, she taught at Buckner Elementary School until May, 1992. Betty was Fort Osage Teacher of the Year in 1976. She was a member of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ. She worked on the Buckner Park Board and the Fire Prairie Creek Wetlands Committee. Betty was preceded in death by her husband David, daughter Patti Alice Williams and grandson Paul David Lloyd II. She is survived by son Paul David Lloyd, Sibley, MO; daughters Linda Louise Lloyd, Florence, MO; Jan Marie Lloyd, Fall River, KS; sister Joan Powers, Maryville, MO; nine grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.