Lloyd E Towne, 89, passed away at his home in Auburn in the early morning hours on the 18th of July 2025. He had been surrounded by family in the preceding days.

Lloyd was born in Spokane WA, the heralded 1st child of Lloyd C. and Edna Towne. They had tried for 5 years before his birth, with 3 more siblings arriving in the coming years. His family moved across the mountains to Pierce County when he was a boy, finally settling north of Seattle in what is now Shoreline. Lloyd once reminisced the worst year of his life was during the 2nd grade when his family moved a lot. He attended 4 different grade schools that year making it impossible to have friends.

Lloyd graduated from Lincoln High School in 1953. The next year he married his sweetheart and “the only girl for me”, Katheryn Nelson. They had 5 children together by the time he was 28.

After high school Lloyd apprenticed at Boeing to become an A&P mechanic. He moved on to United Airlines and retired early from there after 38 years of service. Twenty-Five(25) of those years were spent on graveyard so as to always be home for dinner with his family. That is until a dayshift opened up. (Swing shift was not an option for family time.) Lloyd considered himself lucky to have spent those years working for a company he liked, doing a job he liked and working with people he liked.

Lloyd thought retired should be spelled ‘real-tired’ because his days of retirement were spent doing all the things he loved, but had no time for while employed. Things like finishing a vacation cabin in the mountains above CleElum that he and Katheryn had started, snowmobiling with family and friends, fine tuning MGs, more woodworking projects, retiree get togethers, reconnecting with cousins in eastern WA, eventually babysitting a great grandchild, discovering retired racing greyhounds (Vicki & Rock became the second loves in his life) and greyhound meet-ups.

Lloyd’s life motto was ‘Always Leave Them Laughing’, which he lived until the end. Lloyd enjoyed his life, the ups and the downs.

Lloyd was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Katheryn Towne and a son, Jonathan Towne. He is survived by 1 remaining sister, Lois Lohnes; 4 children, Jeffery Towne(Lucy), Julie Towne, Nikki Towne, MaryAnn Raichart(Dan); 7 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.

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