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Early Life & Immediate Family
Earliest photographs of Zalene found to date, childhood, teenage years & young adulthood (circa 1917-1935).
These two photos, one of "me
and my dear Dady" are the
earliest we have of Zalene.  
They were found in her wallet
after her death.
1101 Taylor Street, Durham, NC is the address of Zalene's home place,
or "Home Sweet Home" as her handwritten caption on this photo says
(Left).  This home was built by the textile mill for which both her parents,
Wade and Ida Lloyd, worked full-time.  They lived in this
company-provided home (which they later purchased) until they both
died.  The home was evidently renovated as its appearance has
changed in this photo taken July 23, 1961.
Zalene's home
church, Edgemont
FWB in Durham,
NC.
(Original Building
was demolished in
1939)
Rebecca Carrol
"Granny" Thompson
(Zalene's Maternal
Grandmother)
Parents:
Wade and Ida
Thompson Lloyd
At her father's
grave with her
mother.
Zalene's siblings
at their father's
graveside: (L to R)
Angeles, Bobby,
Vonnie, Tommy
and Margaret.
Robert "Bobby"
Lloyd is Zalene's
only surviving
sibling.  He lives
with his family in
Wilmington, NC.
Early photo
(1930's?) of
sister, Margaret.
On the reverse of
this High School
photo, Vonnie
wrote to Zalene:
"Love Always
from your little
sister, 'Miss
Toots'."
Zalene and her mother, Ida
Lloyd, walk their youngest
sister/daugher, Yvonne
("Vonnie") in downtown
Durham, NC.  This photo
postcard was likely taken by
a "souvenir" vendor on the
streets of Durham.
1984 Photo of
Yvonne.  A
mother of 6,
she would be
killed by a
drunk driver in
the mid 80's.
Early photo of
sister, Rebecca
Yvonne Llloyd.
College
College girl on
Richland Avenue in
Nashville, TN.  
Automobiles were
rare among the
student body.
College senior pals,
unknown (L) and
Hazel Dawkins (R)
join Zalene in posing
for the camera
around Nashville.
Zalene as a college
freshman at FWB
College in Nashville,
Tennessee (1947).
Autographs from college pals in Zalene's LUMEN
(Yearbook) appear on the same page as the ad from
her home church in Durham, NC.  Her pastor, Paul J.
Ketteman, was the first student at this college in 1942
and would later return to the college as its Public
Relations Director where he would serve until his
death in 1985.  He hired Zalene's eldest son, Frank, in
1978 as a PR representative immediately upon his
graduation from the same institution, a job Frank
would hold until 1987.
Select classmates'
messages in
Zalene's college
yearbook.
Senior Picture in
the LUMEN - the
FWBBC
yearbook.
This"Class Prophesy" from
Zalene's College yearbook
(LUMEN) is built upon an
invitation to the Class of '48 to
Zalene's homecoming from
India after 10 years of
missionary service.
Ethel Whaley, fellow senior & married student,
poses with Zalene Lloyd in this 1948 photograph.  
Five years later, Ethel and her husband, Lee, would
introduce Zalene to a young sailor named Bob at a
church party in Jacksonville, NC.  Their meeting
would survive 51 years.
Zalene's college
graduation photo
(1948).  
Reading her
Bible.
FWBBC Class
of '48 Picture.
Zalene took this photo of the dining table at her
home in Durham where her family had planned a
special send-off party on August 1, 1948.  Seven
days later on August 8, 1948, she would board the
S.S. Bali in New York Harbor and embark on a
30-day voyage to India.  She would be away from
home for 5 years.
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Photos
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To view pages from a Lloyd
family Bible, whereon
Births, Marriages and
Deaths are recorded dating
back to 1858, click here.
This Gothic building (seen here
in 1962) replaced the original
wood structure and was
dedicated in 1946