Lloyd Grainger Becraft
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Apr 1936 - Glasgow, MT 1
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Death: 11 Feb 1997 - Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, , CA 2
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Events
• Soc Sec Num 3, 517-38-4108
• Biography, 1994
Name: Becraft , Lloyd G• Obituary, Ponaco City News, 8 Jun 1997
Birth - Death: 1936-
Accession Number: 287167
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Lloyd Grainger Becraft• Biography, 2003
Lloyd Grainger Becraft, longtime resident of Ponca City, died at Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., on Feb. 11, 1997. He was 60 years of age.
A remembrance celebration will be held in Ponca City, on Sunday, June 15th at the Marland Mansion Estate Chapel from 2 to 6 p.m. Arrangements in California were under the direction of Sneider and Sullivan Funeral Home, San Mateo.
Lloyd was born April 5, 1936, in Glasgow, Mont., the son of Edwin Roy and Gladys Marie Grainger Becraft. He and his parents moved to LaCrosse, Wis., in 1937, where he lived until 1952. He lived one year in St. Louis Park, Minn., before moving to Billings, Mont. where he graduated from Billings High School in 1954.
He attended Montana State College in Bozeman, Mont. where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, serving as secretary and vice-president. Other collegiate activities included band, orchestra, symphonette, student faculty social committee, Fangs service fraternity, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Lloyd was selected for membership in Phi Eta Sigma; Mu Sigma Alpha; Phi Kappa Phi; Septembivi; and Tau Beta Pi, which he served as president. He was also named to "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities." He received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1958, 26 years after his father was awarded the same degree from Montana State.
He married Dianne Friedt on June 15, 1958, in Billings, Mont. The couple moved to Bozeman, Mont. where he attended graduate school. He received a PhD. in chemical engineering from Montana State College in 1962. Upon completion of his graduate studies, he accepted employment with Conoco's Petroleum Products Division of its Research and Development Department in Ponca City, where he worked until he retired in March 1993. During his career with Conoco, he authored or co-authored eight U.S. patents in the field of petroleum products and processes.
Becraft was an active volunteer in the community. He was a member of the Jaycees, serving as president in 1965-66. Other Jaycee offices he held included local director, local vice-president, state vice-president, administrative vice president of the Oklahoma Jaycees, and U.S. Jaycees director. When he reached the age limit for Jaycees, his chapter awarded him a life membership in the Ponca City Jaycees. He also was a JCI Senator and served as president of the Oklahoma JCI Senate.
Active in Boy Scouts, he was Scoutmaster of Troop 3 of the First Presbyterian Church in Ponca City for nine years. He was president of the Community Concert Association in 1968 and president of the Pioneer Historical Society in 1982. He also was active in the East Jr. High and Ponca City Sr. High School instrumental music parents organizations. Becraft was a current member of the Traffic Commission and in previous years was a member of the Hutchins Memorial Advisory Board and Civil Defense Advisory Board.
After retirement from Conoco, Becraft became an active volunteer with the Ponca City Humane Society. He served on its Board of Directors and as president in 1994-95.
Becraft's longtime hobby was playing the French Horn and he played in numerous musical organizations, including the Billings (Montana) Symphony Orchestra; Billings, Bozeman, and Ponca City municipal bands; and the Ponca City Civic Orchestra. He was a featured soloist with the Montana State Symphonette in 1957. He also played in the pit orchestra for many Ponca Playhouse musicals, in community and church presentations of the Messiah, and for a number of local church musical productions.
Survivors include his daughter, Wanda Becraft Neufer and her husband Greg of San Carlos, Calif.; his son, Warren of Singapore; and his grandson, Tyler Alexander Neufer. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dianne.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Ponca City Humane Society, P.O. Box 2311, Ponca City, OK 74602.
paid obituary
Name: Becraft , Lloyd G(rainger)
Birth - Death: 1936-
Accession Number: 287168
Source Citation: American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 21st edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003.(AmMWSc 21)
Parents
Father: Edwin Roy Becraft
Mother: Gladys Marie Grainger
Spouses and Children
1. *Dianne Margaret Friedt
Marriage: 15 Jun 1958 - Billings, Yellowstone Co, MT
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Children:
1. Wanda Becraft
2. Warren Russell Becraft
Sources
1. U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index. .... www.familytreelegends.com. .... California Death Index, 1940-1997 (Sacramento, Ca: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, 19--.)
2. U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index. .... www.familytreelegends.com, Santa Clara Co, CA. .... California Death Index, 1940-1997 (Sacramento, Ca: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, 19--.)
3. U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index.