Lloyd Stockman, who recently retired from Faith Chapel Baptist Church in Marion after 30 years as pastor, died June 28. He was 82.
Stockman grew up at Plantersville Baptist Church, where he was saved and was in the first group baptized in the new church baptistry. He met his wife, Carolyn, at Northside Baptist Church in Selma, where he was ordained as a deacon. He helped start Summerfield Baptist Church in Valley Grande, and he was licensed to ministry there in 1987 and served as youth minister.
He was ordained as a pastor in 1994 at Summerfield, by request of Faith Chapel, where he had become the pastor. Stockman also worked for 33 years as the director of distribution and traffic for American Candy Company in Selma.
Stockman is survived by his wife of 57 years, three children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Funeral services will be July 6 at 11 a.m. at Selma Funeral Home Chapel with Doug Vance and Lee Tate officiating. Interment will be in Pineview Memory Garden with Selma Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 10 to 11 a.m.
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