Marylee Benton Lloyd

Marylee Benton Lloyd died peacfully at her home in Fredericksburg, Virginia on October 3, 2018.  She was surrounded by family and friends. For the past three years, Marylee suffered from pancreatic cancer but she put up a good fight.  She will be missed by her sisters, Sheila C. Washington and Monica C. Benton; three nephews, two nieces, three great grand nieces and nephews, and many cousins and extended family throughout the United States.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul A. Lloyd, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and artist, who past away in 2008 and her brother Wayne R. Benton who passed away in January 2018. Marylee retired from her position as a technical writer and editor with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Marylee was born on May 1, 1951 to the late Mary and Leroy Benton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Temple University with a BA degree in Communications. She did post graduate study at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, England and Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait. She also studied drama and acting and was cast as an extra in the movie The Day of the Locust (1975), Paramount Pictures.  Marylee was an adventurer. There was nothing she could not do. She was involved in the Buffalo Soldier Monument dedication, serving as the writer of the memorial dedication on display at Fort Levenworth, Kanasas.  When Marylee was a teenager, she was involved in the Young Volunteer Workers for the American Red Cross (Candy Stripes). Something her mother admired greatly at the time.  Marylee was a wonderful person, who loved fashion and modeling, traveling, jazz, eating crabs, and admiring the waves and saltwater ambience of the Chesapeake Bay. She will be greatly missed.