Lloyd Ransom

Lloyd Dudley Ransom was born May 10, 1934, in Okmulgee Oklahoma, to parents Velma Lee McCon Ransom and Granville Ransom. He was the eleventh of fourteen children.

As a child, Lloyd lived in Taft and Haskell Oklahoma, before moving to Tulsa Oklahoma, where he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School, May 1952 with honors as CO-VALEDICTORIAN. Lloyd started college at Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio, where he played football. After two years of college, he joined the Army during the last part of the Korean War and was shipped to Japan for overseas duty.  Lloyd finished his college education at Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, graduating in 1958. He married his campus sweetheart, Archie Dean Stevenson.  Lloyd and Archie were married for 64 years, and have three children: Sheryl Ransom Crockett, Kenny Ransom and Andrea Ransom Jackson, who preceded her dad in death.

Lloyd started his professional career in California, as a chemist at North American Aviation and then progressed onto the Aerospace Industry at companies such as Hughes Aircraft, and Lockheed Martin.  In 1970, Lloyd joined two other engineers to form NEMONICS DATA SYSTEMS, where he and his partners pioneered innovative computer memory systems. Nemonics Data Systems is what brought Lloyd and his family to Denver, Colorado. After Nemonics was sold, Lloyd went to work at Storage Technology, also in Colorado, and ended his professional career at HI-TEK GRAPHICS, which he owned and operated.

Lloyd Ransom was an activist, like many others of his time, he had to be. One of his most outstanding accomplishments in activism was a two-year legal battle to buy a home for his family in Torrance, California. Through his own grit and determination, not the legal system, Lloyd and Archie Ransom were the first black homeowners in Torrance California.

With all his brilliance, the most rewarding parts of Lloyd’s life was his love for his wife, children, and his grandchildren, whom he adored.

Sports, studying his families’ history and his friends were also important parts of his life.  Lloyd loved coaching youth sports, investigating his family background, joyfully meeting extended family members, sharing life with his friends, and proudly watching the growth and education of his grandchildren.

Lloyd is survived by his loving wife, Archie Ransom; two of his children: Sheryl Crockett and Kenneth Ransom; seven grandchildren: Jasson Crockett, Brittany Crockett, Randi Jackson, Kendall Jackson, Brandon Crockett, Jalyn Jackson, and Orlando Ransom; as well as many nieces, nephews, and his brother, Floyd Ransom.

Funeral Service will be held at 10:00am on Wednesday, June 22 at Horan & McConaty, 11150 E Dartmouth Ave, Aurora CO 80014.

Livestreaming of services will be available at https://bxcited.com/lloyd-d-ransom/