Alex Lloyd OBITUARY

Alex Lloyd, 81, of Avon, Connecticut and Palm City, Florida, died on July 7, 2024, after a brief illness brought on by complications of dementia. Born in Atlantic, Iowa, to Norman and Ruth Lloyd, Alex and his older brother David grew up in Yonkers, New York. Alex was a living testament to the truth that you can take the boy out of New York, but you can’t take the New York out of the boy. After graduating from Riverdale Country Day School in New York, he left the big city to attend Colby College in Waterville, Maine. There, he became vocalist and guitarist in a band that made the circuit of dive bars of northern New England and met and married his first wife, Jacqueline Anne Roe. He also earned a B.A. in Economics but, as he told it, that part was incidental. Alex earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1967, after which he joined the law firm Shipman and Goodwin. He became partner in 1971, practicing tax, business, and health care law and serving for many years as outside counsel for Hartford Hospital. He became managing partner in 1985 and served in that role until 1996, leading the firm through a period of growth and prosperity. He was beloved by his partners, who remember him for his leadership, mentorship, and irreverent sense of humor.

Alex and Jackie raised their four children, Erin, Andi, John, and Peter, in West Hartford, in a household full of activity and laughter. Although Alex would be quick to say that all of the credit for child-rearing belonged to Jackie (who would not have disagreed), his children would say that he underestimated the impact he had on them. He passed on to them a readiness for laughter, a love of music, a love of baseball — although they all ended up rooting for the wrong team — and a bedrock belief in the importance of family.

Alex could never quite believe he’d been lucky enough to convince someone like Jackie to marry someone like him; that sense of gob-smacked delight at his good fortune followed him into his marriage to Joanne Fay Neidlinger, whom he met in 2008 and married in August, 2010. The two split their time between Harbor Ridge, Florida, and Avon, Connecticut. They shared a love of good music, good food, good friends, and family. They also shared a love of golf, a game to which Alex was devoted. Even deeper than his love of the game, though, was his love for the people with whom he played. Their unflagging friendship and support through Alex’s health challenges in recent years meant the world to him.

Alex is survived by his wife Joanne, his brother David, his daughter Erin and her husband Ben, his daughter Andi, his son John and his wife Tori, his son Peter and his wife Beth, his grandchildren Tik, Radhika, Josephine, Galen, Jack, Clare, Finn, and Rowan, his great-grandson Aden, and his step-daughters Melissa Vaughn and Lanie Raymond and their families.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, July 12 from 9 to 11:00 AM at Ahern Funeral Home at 180 Farmington Ave., Hartford. A celebration of life and reception will begin at noon at the Hartford Golf Club at 134 Norwood Rd in West Hartford. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to the Center for Children’s Advocacy (65 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105), First Tee Connecticut (55 Golf Club Road, Cromwell, CT 06416), or a charity of the donor’s choice.