Grandpa Lloyd Thomas Stoker

This is a tribute/reminisce of my grandpa. My Grandpa Stoker was such a good man and I have so many fond memories as a child with him. I'm just going to list some here so that I will remember some of them.

• His silly little songs that he used to sing on the farm. I don't remember him when he still lived on his farm, but I know that he loved it and I loved to hear the songs that he used to sing while he worked.
  
• Hearing his stories of his cows, dogs, and tractors.
  
• He knew that Heavenly Father lived and he worked to serve Heavenly Father every day.
• He served three missions with my grandma, his sweetheart. Nauvoo, Illinois, Barbados, West Indies, and Palmyra, New York.
  
• One time we spent Christmas with them and we all just loved his cow pajamas that included a cap with a cow bell on the point! It was so funny.
  
• I used to ask him to yodel for us all the time. I just loved that he could do that.
  
• He had little contraptions all throughout his house...things that he had invented or jerry rigged.
  
• I remember watching him pour a bowl of milk and then tear up a piece of bread and add it to the milk and eat it. I thought that was so strange!
  
• He used peel oranges all in one big piece.
• I loved watching him play marbles with the boys. I never could compete with them, but I'd try on occasion. He was the champion though.
  
• I loved the Big family camp outs with everyone.
  
• He worked in a vineyard and I remember going to help him out there sometimes.
  
• He always had a shoe horn.
• I loved the painting that hung in their bathroom in their home in Layton. He painted it and I would admire it all the time. It's just a simple painting of nature, some trees and stuff.
  
• He gave the spotlight on me at my baptism.
  
• I used to love to watch Matlock because I thought that it looked just like my grandpa.
• Grandma and Grandpa took us to Disneyland and went camping on the ocean with us. That is a memory I will never forget. We had a blast!
  

I love my grandpa. I am so happy for him and proud of him. I'm glad that he was able to make it to my wedding. I know it wasn't easy for him and I am so grateful for all of the sacrifices that he endured to make his family what they are now.