Lloyd Charles Sommerville
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5A - January 21, 2012
Lloyd Charles Sommerville died
January 18, at Mesa Manor
Nursing Home in Grand Junction,
he was 93.
He was born February 11, 1918
in Molina, Colorado to Charles
Sommerville and Elsie (Lytle)
Sommerville.
Lloyd lived in the Collbran/Molina area in his early years and spent
three years in Grand Junction before his family purchased a small
farm in Fruita. Lloyd learned farming from his father which led to
his life long career in agriculture.
On December 31, 1938, Lloyd married his grade school sweetheart,
May Nicholls, in the Fruita Methodist Church. They had met
when May was in the seventh grade and Lloyd, in the eighth grade
at the old Fruita Central School. They have been best friends and
soul mates ever since, which will now continue into the eternities.
Lloyd’s bride of 68 years passed away in January of 2007.
In the spring of 1939, they rented a farm at 21 and K Road in Mesa
County, purchased that property a few years later and lived and
farmed there until 1981 when they moved to Lakewood, Colorado.
Lloyd returned to Grand Junction in the fall of 2011.
Survivors include his daughter, Louise Doyal (Jack Beach) of
Fruita; son, Robert Sommerville of Lakewood, Colorado; son, Thomas
(Carol) Sommerville of Fruita, as well as 12 grandchildren; 23
great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be held from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the Fruita LDS
Chapel, 417 East Ottley Ave. on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Funeral
services will be held at the at 12:00 p.m. Graveside services
will follow at the Elmwood Cemetery.
Arrangements are the direction of Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D - January 22, 2012
Lloyd Charles Sommerville died
January 18, at Mesa Manor
Nursing Home in Grand Junction,
he was 93.
He was born February 11, 1918
in Molina, Colorado to Charles
Sommerville and Elsie (Lytle)
Sommerville.
Lloyd lived in the Collbran/Molina area in his early years and spent
three years in Grand Junction before his family purchased a small
farm in Fruita. Lloyd learned farming from his father which led to
his life long career in agriculture.
On December 31, 1938, Lloyd married his grade school sweetheart,
May Nicholls, in the Fruita Methodist Church. They had met
when May was in the seventh grade and Lloyd, in the eighth grade
at the old Fruita Central School. They have been best friends and
soul mates ever since, which will now continue into the eternities.
Lloyd’s bride of 68 years passed away in January of 2007.
In the spring of 1939, they rented a farm at 21 and K Road in Mesa
County, purchased that property a few years later and lived and
farmed there until 1981 when they moved to Lakewood, Colorado.
Lloyd returned to Grand Junction in the fall of 2011.
Survivors include his daughter, Louise Doyal (Jack Beach) of
Fruita; son, Robert Sommerville of Lakewood, Colorado; son, Thomas
(Carol) Sommerville of Fruita, as well as 12 grandchildren; 23
great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be held from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the Fruita LDS
Chapel, 417 East Ottley Ave. on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Funeral
services will be held at the at 12:00 p.m. Graveside services
will follow at the Elmwood Cemetery.
Arrangements are the direction of Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 6A - January 25, 2012
Lloyd Sommerville, 93,
Grand Junction, died Jan. 18,
2012, at Mesa Manor.
Visitation will be from 10:30-
11:30 a.m. today at the Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints
Church in Fruita, with services
at noon and burial to follow at
New Elmwood Cemetery.
Mr. Sommerville was a farmer.
Survivors include two sons,
Bob of Lakewood and Tom of
Grand Junction; one daughter,
Louise Doyal of Fruita; 12
grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren;
and two great-greatgrandchildren.
Memorial contributions to
Hospice & Palliative Care of
Western Colorado, 3090B N.
12th St., Grand Junction 81506,
or Mesa Manor, 2901 N. 12th St.,
Grand Junction 81506.
