Bode J. Lloyd

Bode J.O. Lloyd was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, February 26, 1998, the son of Kevin and Suzanne Lloyd. He died during a fishing accident in rural Dow City, Iowa, Sunday, March 20, 2016 at the age of eighteen.
Bode attended elementary and middle school in Mountain Lake Community Schools and moved to Kiron, Iowa in 2012 to live with his father. He continued his education in the Denison Community High School where he was to graduate with the class of 2016. While in school, he worked for K and D Construction in Vail, Quality Truck and Trailer and Quality Communications. During his junior year in high school, he enlisted in the Iowa National Guard and served in boot camp at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina from June 7 to August 8 of 2015. After graduation from high school, he was to be shipped to Ft. Lee, Virginia for continued training as a diesel mechanic with 93rd Bravo company.
Bode was an energetic young man enjoying various sports in his educational career including: wrestling, football, basketball, fishing, hunting, NASCAR racing, snowmobiling in the Snowy Mountain Range, Wyoming and mudding with a 4 wheeled drive pickup. His principal hobbies involved tinkering with motors, and working on cars. He did summer trucking with his father and was a very considerate man who would offer his assistance to anyone who was in need of his help. He had a firm interest in the military and considered making a career in the service.
Bode is preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Gary and Hilda; step-grandfather, Gil. Survivors include his father, Kevin and Tami; his mother, Suzanne; step-father, Jesse; one brother, Tanner and one sister, Elizabeth; two step-brothers, Brandon and his wife, Alissa and Kelby and his wife, Rya; maternal grandparents, Linden and Sharon and step grandmother, Deb; one uncle, Jeff and special friend, Tina; aunts: Sondra and her husband, Todd; Shannon and her husband, Brett; Kelli and her husband, Michael; Kim; and Marcia and her husband Todd.