Anthony (Tony) Lloyd, a well-known Penticton resident and retired lawyer, passed away on April 19, 2015.

His wife Judy Lloyd and family are donating $30,000 to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation in Tony’s memory.

Tony Lloyd was born in 1927 in the rural community of Biggar, Sask. and was homeschooled by his mother, a teacher. At age 16 he decided to follow his mother’s footsteps by enrolling in the Regina Teachers’ College.

While holidaying in B.C. in 1948, Tony and his mother applied for teaching positions in the Salmon Arm area.  Tony would later become principal of a small two-room school.  That initial teaching job deepened his love of education and he later enrolled at UBC to hone his profession.

Despite his Prairie roots, Tony got a summer job as a fishing guide at Painter’s Lodge in Campbell River, along with a university friend who was studying law.  Soon Tony developed an interest in law as well. After finishing a law degree and articling in Vancouver, he joined Boyle & Co. in Penticton in 1955.

Tony remained with the firm for the next 55 years, specializing in business law before reluctantly retiring  in 2010 when hearing loss made working unfeasible.

Tony was a long-time member of the Rotary Club of Penticton and was an active golfer, sailor, fisherman, skier and more until his health deteriorated after suffering a stroke in 2013.

Judy said their emotional attachment to Penticton Regional Hospital deepened as a result.

“In his last two years he spent an awful lot of time in the hospital,” she said. “Who hasn’t had interaction with the Penticton hospital? You can’t live in this community without that.”

“We had such awesome doctors and then we met such wonderful nurses when Tony was in the hospital. In fact, I’ve become friends with a number of them and they’re my Facebook buddies.”

Years earlier, Tony’s mother died of breast cancer at PRH. Tony remained friends with her former nurse for several years until the nurse passed away about 10 years ago.