Stan Lloyd in "Elba, Idaho, of All Places!:

Stan Lloyd "Of Elba,Idaho, of All Places" is an avid historian and a great story teller. He instigated many of the trips that we took with neighbors and guests to learn of the history of the Raft River Valley! You will hear much from Stan as we embark on this history adventure. He would always introduce himself as "Stan Lloyd, of Elba, Idaho, of All Places." Then he would tell that Ted Tuttle worked with "Father" after he came home from World War II. Ted had been in the Merchant Marine. A short paragraph on familysearch.org gives this clue to his experience. "5’ 11” in height. green eyes. Born with dark brown hair but during WWII while serving in the Naval Reserves, at one point his ship was under attack by the Japanese for about a month. He said he went from a guy with dark thick hair to gray and balding." Stan says that Ted would look up from working on their property there in the Elba valley, look around, and say, "Doesn't it beat "heck", repeating it a few minutes later. Finally Father said, "What beats "heck", Ted? Ted shook his head and said, "I've been all over the world and here I am back in Elba, Idaho, of all places. Doesn't it beat "heck"? So Stan isn't in Elba, Idaho, right now. He is living at Pomerelle Place in Burley because he got too rambunctious at home. But he is still totally involved in our history project. I hear from him every few days. I sent Stan a cassette recorder soon after he moved to his new home. He has been recording histories of some of his neighbors in Pomerelle Place! n He is going to record more about Ted Tuttle and Nathaniel Wake. This morning he told me that Nathaniel was married to Lovina Chandler (both natives of Elba) and they had two little girls when he went into the Navy during World War II. Nathaniel was aboard the USS Liscome Bay Aircraft Carrier when it was sunk in the Gilbert Islands on 24 November 1943. The ship went down within twenty three minutes after being struck by a single torpedo. Six hundred forty four men, including Nathaniel, were lost. Out of 916 men, only 272 sailors were rescued. Ted may have been in that same battle aboard another ship. He returned to Elba and married Lovina in 1951. He died only ten years later. The photos are of Nathaniel and Lovina and their daughters and Ted Tuttle. There is a photo of Stan on the mini cassia Heritage Hub Facebook Page.