Faye Crews Lloyd

Faye Crews Lloyd was born in Richmond, Virginia on April 26, 1934, lived for almost 84 years, and left us on April 8, 2018. The daughter of Bettie Virginia Crews and Earl Crews, she grew up in Fayetteville, West Virginia where AT&T placed her father. She was graduated from St. Mary’s School of Nursing in 1955. Later, she attended Marshall University where she majored in history. She began nursing at Memorial Hospital but worked most of her career in the offices of various specialists including an ophthalmologist, a pediatrician, and two surgeons. She was recognized as a highly skilled and sensitive professional, renowned in the pediatrician’s office for her lightning technique of giving shots—wailing child and anxious parent wondering when she was going to administer the shot when she had already finished. Some of us excel in an outward way winning honors in the public eye. Faye’s success lay in the indwelling calm of her heart, an inner strength and quiet that drew those who loved her to her. It enabled her to devote her full self to those she loved, and in that process they were buoyed up and enriched and saved by her love. The family of her love was so broad as to encompass companion animals of all sorts, but especially cats whom she taught her husband to cherish. Their fifty-year marriage saw the rearing of a daughter and the taking in of almost fifty stray felines. She is survived by her husband Charles, her daughter Cynthia Hoopes (William Hoopes) of Durham, North Carolina, two grandchildren, Anna and Hunter, and her sister Ann Diestel of Camarillo, California. In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to Little Victories (www.littlevictories.org) as Faye would wish. A memorial service will be conducted on Sunday, April 15, 2018 at Trinity Episcopal Church at 2 pm by Fr. Chip Graves. Friends may call from 6 – 8 pm on Saturday at the Reger Funeral Home. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.regerfh.com.