Thursday, September 29, 2011

My Grandpa



 
My Grandpa

My Grandma




Obituary for Lloyd Hale Beynon

Lloyd Hale Beynon, 87, of Danville IL, passed away at 10:43 AM on Monday September 26, 2011 at Hawthorne Inn Nursing Home in Danville.

Lloyd was born on March 29, 1924 to Louis and Emma (Squires) Beynon in Divernon, IL. He was raised and educated in Divernon where he graduated High School then left on April 7, 1943 to join the United States Army Air Force. On April 21st he was sent to Kearns Utah for basic training where he was promoted to Private First Class and then sent to Administration School in Bookings South Dakota. In August 1943 he was assigned to guard duty on the USS Argentina on a trip to Burtonwood England. As much as he wanted to fly his feet were firmly on the ground in England to help supply the troops. In June 1944 he was on Detached Service where he lived in private homes or an apartment and had a permanent 24-hour pass, a British Ration card and lived like a British civilian. In February 1946 he was promoted to Sergeant. In each of his assignments he was Administrator and Finance NCO. While serving in the USAA he met the love of his life, an English gal, Marjorie Mary “Joan” Tarzey and on March 19, 1946 they married in Bristol England. On April 10, 1946 he boarded the USS Tusculum Victory at Southampton for the trip back to the USA.

After his wife arrived from England they settled in Decatur, IL. Using the GI Bill Lloyd attended Millikin University in Decatur. After graduation from Millikin Lloyd, Joan and daughter Gay went to England where he attended Bristol University. Arriving back in the USA he worked for a short time for Firestone in Danville as office and credit manager. In 1952 he accepted the position of Customer Billing Supervisor, Ballast Department at General Electric. He held various positions all in the financial section until retiring in 1986.

Lloyd was a partner in a real estate partnership with Robert “Bud” Britton that bought and renovated homes. He was an avid participant in the Boy Scouts serving as Scout Master, on the council level organizing campories and was inducted into The Order of the Arrow. He was a life member of the American Legion Post 210, the VFW, the War Museum in Danville, Burtonwood Association in England and the Masons in Divernon.

Lloyd was a conservative and very generous man establishing three endowments at SIU School of Medicine in the memory of Gerry and Ted Murzynski. He also set up a Charitable Remainder Trust benefiting the Danville Public Library, Danville Area Community College Foundation and Provena United Samaritans Foundation.

Surviving are one son- Mark (Janne) Beynon, one daughter- Gay (Bill) Takakoshi, two granddaughters- Sarah (Eric) Lindley and Jessica (Craig) Barton, one great-grandson- Grayson Lloyd Lindley, a very special friend Nancy Naylor, sister in law Simone Tarzey, two nephews- Daniel (Netti) Tarzey and David (Ann) Leonhard.

His parents preceded him in death, as well as his wife Joan, two sisters Gwendolyn (Ed) Leonhard and Geraldine (Ted) Murzynski, one brother Louis Evan Jr. (Ruth Durst) Beynon. His mother in law Mrs. E.B. Tarzey and brother in law Hugh Tarzey.

Cremation rites have been accorded. All services will be for private family. Sunset Funeral Home and Cremation Center, A Life Celebration Home in Danville are in charge of arrangements. A burial of ashes will take place at Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Danville, Brush Creek Cemetery in Divernon, IL and Clifton Downs in Bristol England at a later date. Memorials can be made in lieu of flowers to Danville Public Library, Danville Area Community College, Provena United Samaritans Hospital or the donor’s choice. Condolences may be sent to the family at: http://www.sunsetfuneralhome.com/






Favorite Memories:
*Grandpa asking us each meal if we wanted prune juice to drink.
*Watching tennis or the daily soap opera after our cheese and butter sandwhich lunch.
*Grandpa's recliner.
*Our art work displayed proudly on the fridge.
*Break-your-bones bear hugs.
*"Painting" the lawn furniture with wet paintbrushes.
*Climbing the sky-high pine tree.
*Words like "Mum" for Mom and "Cheerio" for goodbye.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

4th anniversary of my 25th Birthday!

At work we get to order a special treat to share with the whole office!  Always a big hit is the double cookie with icing in the middle from Sam's.  It is sooooo good! 
 
Probably one of my favorite birthday cards ever!  Such a cute footprint from my favorite nephew Grayson! (He really does have all ten fingers and ten toes!)
 
Craig's version of making me a birthday cake - taking me to Starbucks for their birthday cake pops!  These are the sweetest, buttery, yummiest things you will ever eat.  About half of one is more than enough!

Our next stop was downtown Bloomington for the 4th Street Festival! 
 
Even though it was super hot, there were still a ton of people out to look at all the amazing art.  We did ending up buying one piece of art for someones birthday!  I can't wait to give it to them!


Craig and I decided to buy this pretty chair, to be delivered late October!
 
Did I mention that it was hot!?!  (and my husband is too!)

My free birthday dessert from Lennies.  Yummy brownie, topped with syrup and ice cream!  How did they know?
 
I got to make a couple birthday wishes this year!

My "cabin family" made me a fruit pizza!  (Notice what the blueberries spell!)   It was a great birthday and a great Labor day weekend.  Probably my favorite part was spending time with Craig in between his two weeks of travel. 


Monday, September 12, 2011

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Random...


Here are some of my favorite pictures/videos from this summer.
This morning...beautiful sky!



 Kaden and Karter making each other laugh over the silliest thing - "yellow."  These boys are the cutest and are definitely entertaining to be around!

Yesterday morning...silly neighbor's cat sitting on our back porch.

Craig enjoying his favorite nephew.  You can almost feel the love that is being hugged to Grayson!

This is Sarah holding Grayson when he was just a month old, stroking his face.  Her words at the end, "He is so sweet."   This video melts my heart.



Craig was the Electricity and Woodworking judge at the Vermillion County Fair and the Woodworking judge at the Vigo County Fair this summer.  He is so good with kids.  He asks just the right questions to get the kids talking.  One of the moms even asked him if he was a teacher.

My Grandpa has the clearest blue eyes.  He was having a good day when we saw him last.

Yummy cantaloupe.

Go Diego Go!  Just about everyone makes fun of me asks me about the Diego figurines that hang out in my car.  Craig won them in a random gift pack after a 5K race.  I just like them, that's the only reason I need!

It's weeks like this (when Craig is gone and I can blog all I want and eat all the junk I want) that I can have a dinner that consists of watermelon and m&m's.  The eating right and running again can start next week after my birthday!

This picture brings an instant smile to my face!  Grayson laughing at his Great Grandma Dodie!

This is the sunset after that crazy storm that caused the accident at the State Fair.

I LOVE Bloomington Farmer's Market!!

Furniture Hunting

A couple Saturdays ago, Craig and I looked all over the Bloomington area for some furniture. It was the weekend before students came back to campus, so there were some pretty great deals going on!  Nobody was eager to negotiate a lower price, but I think the sale prices were pretty good to begin with.  We found this chair (above) and really like it.  We asked about getting some pillows out of the same material.  The sales lady looked up the information and quoted us the price of about $100-150 per pillow!!  Wow!  So we didn't buy any pillows...or the chair.  We still really like it, but have decided to wait for now. 


Our next stop was Longs Landing.  This place looks HORRIBLE from the outside!

This is the roof of the place!!!  How can that be safe?  This picture actually doesn't do it justice.

We were told the used furniture was upstairs... we should have known from the stairs not to go up there!



This picture also doesn't do the floor justice.  I was seriously walking with my hands out to my sides, expecting at any moment to fall through the floor.  I'm pretty sure I got asthma and lung cancer while I was up there.  Not only do they sell used furniture, but all the embedded smells and stains that come on the orange 1970s couches!

This is actually the piece of furniture that we bought from Long's Landing.  We also bought 2 additional stools to go under the island.  We had heard of this particular store from when we walked through some homes this spring at the Parade of Homes.  Some of the homes were furnished by Longs Landing.  It was a great place to buy a table, but I would be worried about buying any permeable materials.

On to the next place!  We visited Thompson's furniture and they had huge selection.  Craig really liked this chair.  It has a neat look to it and is actually very sturdy and comfortable!  I'm not sure that it goes with the look we are going for...whatever that is!


This is the love seat that we picked out!!  We also got a couch to match.  It has that look that the color is black, but really in the light - it is brown.  It looks really good with our floors!  I love having a place to relax.  They delivered the couch with some scratches at the bottom, but came back this week and fixed them.  They just pulled the extra material down, added a few million staples, and it looks good as new.

Ty Pennington reeeaaalllly wanted us to buy this table, but he was just asking too much for it!  It was so so so cute, especially with the mirror to match.


This is another couch we considered...cute but not quite right.
I hope you have enjoyed some of the highlights from our furniture shopping adventure!