FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] The right Rev. Lloyd J. Jones

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A customer in a booth of a Bristol restaurant reached up and took me by the 
arm, today at lunch.  I turned quickly to see who it was.
The right Rev. Lloyd J. Jones, former spiritual leader of the Bristol Bird Club 
and four years the treasurer of BBC (March 1993-Aug 1997).   The guy who pulled 
our finances together and put us on the road to sound financial management.  He 
was a member of our club from April 17, 1991 unitl August 1997.

"I am working on my collection of bird photos I have taken over the years," he 
said with a smile. "Do you remember the day we were at Clear Creek Lake and 
found the Snow Goose ?  There were Canada Geese all over the place.  I need the 
date if you can find it."

I assured him I had a record of that field trip somewhere.  I promised to 
e-mail him.  Here it is Lloyd:

11 Dec 1993, Clear Creek Lake, near Wallace in Washington County, Va.  
Observers Lloyd Jones and Wallace Coffey
snow "squaw" with flakes blowing horrizontal to the ground
Canad Goose - 172
Snow Goose -2

Lloyd first came to the Bristol Bird Club, Tue., April 17. 1991, when we were 
meeting in the conference room of the Bristol Herald Courier.  He was an 
environmentalist with the Virginia Department of Transportation. During the 
next six and one-half years he quickly became one of our most beloved and 
enjoyable members.

He was also aboard his brother's float boat at South Holston Lake near Musick's 
Campground with other members of the BBC field trip that historic evening when 
the first Eared Grebe was discovered there Sunday, Oct. 2, 1994. It was the 
rarest bird found on a BBC field trip during the club's 45-year history.  Lloyd 
got credit for being the first to get the identity and also credit for the 
excellent photo made within 50 feet.  You all know the history of that species 
at Musick's Campground during the 12 winters since.

"I see Bryan Stevens quite often," he said.  "He is around Erwin all the time 
working on newspaper stories and taking pictures."

Lloyd left activity with the BBC when he decied to answer the call to the 
ministry and was almost constantly gone during the summer to Duke University to 
take courses.

He is the pastor at Centenary United Methodist Church, 203 North Elm Street, 
Erwin, TN.
During his first year in the pulpit he had a two-point charge which included 
serving Weaver Union Church and Paperville United Methodist Church near Bristol 
Tennessee.

You can imagine his fright when Larry McDaniel and several others of us 
promised to be sitting in a rusty, abandoned school bus we would drive to the 
front steps of the Paperville church on his first Sunday with his new and tiny 
congregation.  We told him the bus would be full of trash with empty beer cans 
strewn around the church lawn.  We would sit on the front row in dirty field 
clothes with binoculars and introduce ourselves as his best birding friends.  
Of course he was greatly relieved when we didn't do that.

Llyod is remembered for his hilarious color slide programs which were so 
humorous and clever everyone laughed constantly.  In Sept. 1994 our club built 
a widlife habitat on the grounds of Wallace Elementary School for the students. 
 Lloyd headed that up and BBC dedicated the project in the memory of James 
Boyd, treasuer of BBC for 12 years until his death in Feb. 1993.  Boyd's wife, 
Mary, had been a teacher at that school.

Many of you no doubt remember the a crowd of birders on a BBC field trip who 
gather at Lloyd's home on Muddy Creek near Tri-City Airport and Pat Galliher 
climed almost a 100 feet to the nest of a Great Horned Owl.  Richard Lewis was 
there to band the young.  It was a beautiful spring day.  The photo 
opportunities were abundant.

When I saw Lloyd today, he was entertaining his mother for lunch.  She lives 
near Bluff City, TN.

It is always good to see former BBC members and a friend who brings back so 
many warm memories of bird club years.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN




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