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Date published: 7/15/2010
Dr. Thomas Stacy Lloyd Jr. died at Marian Manor in Stafford County on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. He was 84 years old. Dr. Lloyd was born in 1925 in Richmond to the late Thomas Stacy Lloyd and Helen Briel Lloyd. After graduation from high school at 16, he attended the University of Richmond and graduated from The Medical College of Virginia at age 22. He did his internship and residency in New Orleans at Southern Baptist Hospital. In between his medical studies, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corp, and was called to active duty during the Korean War as a battalion surgeon with the 300th Armored Field Artillery, The Cowboy Cannoneers from Wyoming. He attended to the wounded before they went to M.A.S.H., and he was awarded The Bronze Star. After he finished his military obligations at Fort Myers as a captain in the Army, he returned to New Orleans to finish his medical training. He moved to Fredericksburg in 1954 with his former wife, Jane (now deceased), and two children, Paula Jean and Scott Lloyd. His second son, Philip Briel Lloyd was born in Fredericksburg. He was the third OB in the area and the first OB-GYN at the Pratt Medical Center (at that time, The Pratt Clinic). He established a busy and well-respected OB-GYN practice, bringing into the community many fine OB-GYN physicians: Dr. Clement Robbins, Dr. Donald Stoker, Dr. Frank Durcan, Dr. Tom Tomzak, Dr. Douglas Meyer and Dr. Patricia Murray. During his medical career spanning 50 years, he delivered over 8,000 babies. He always said, that "There's a tremendous gratification to being part of something that has been built up in people's hearts for nine months." He was also the first physician in the area to introduce ultrasound in his OB-GYN practice. During his medical career, he published over 20 articles in medical journals. He was past president of Fredericksburg Area Medical Society, and a member of the Medical Society of Virginia. He was a Fellow of The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a diplomat in The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was a member of The Southern Medical Association and the American Fertility Society.
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