Elizabeth “Libby” Stroud Loder of Huntsville, passed away Thursday. Born in Chester, SC to William and Virginia Stroud, she graduated from Winthrop College with a bachelor’s degree in math. She worked as a Mathematician at TVA in Chattanooga, TN. In 1958, her husband, Rudd, accepted a job with Thiokol and they moved to Huntsville where Libby worked as a substitute teacher and a poll worker.
Libby was a member of First United Methodist Church where she was active with the UMW and Alter Guild. She was a Huntsville Hospital volunteer for 50 years, a member of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Guild, the Junior Welfare League, and was one of the Magnolia Trace “petals”.
Libby loved her church and her family and could best be described with the words “light, love, laughter, and joy”.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Rudd Loder, Jr., her parents, brother, William Paul Stroud Jr., sister, Dorothy Stroud Ellis, nephew, Ken Grimsley, and sister-in-law, Sarah Holt Hipp. Survivors include her daughter, Virginia “Ginger” Loder; son, Thomas R. Loder III; nieces, Sarah Hipp Love, Susan Grimsley Cantey (Harry) and Dayle Grimsley; nephews, Paul Grimsley (Millie), Bill Stroud (Jan), and Kirk Stroud (Nancy); and friend, Larry Grimes.
The family would like to give a special thanks to her caregivers.
Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at First United Methodist Church. The service will follow at the church with the Rev. Coy Hallmark officiating. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Guild for the Ruth Cole Weber Scholarship Fund or to First United Methodist Church for either the CUP or Music Fund.
