Lloyd Everson, "Mr. Wal-Mart People Greeter" 85, died Monday, February 20, 2012, at the United Retirement Center after a brief illness. Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, February 25, 2012, at First Lutheran Church in Volga, with interment in the church cemetery. Visitations will be from 5-7 P.M. Friday at Eidsness Funeral Chapel in Volga. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to Brookings Habitat for Humanity or Sons of Norway. Lloyd Arthur Everson was born November 27, 1926, to Isaac and Ina (Linden) Everson at Volga SD. Lloyd had spinal meningitis when he was three years old which affected his stature over the years, but never his spirit. He was raised on a farm seven miles south of Volga and attended District 67 School up to the eighth grade, which he walked to everyday. After school, Lloyd worked on the farm and milking cows. In 1972/73 at the age of 47 he obtained his GED. In 1989 he sold the family farm and moved into Sinai and continued to work for area farmers. He then worked at the wastewater treatment plant in Brookings and attended SDSU at night. He had just completed 96 credits when he had a stroke in Nov. 1991 and was unable to graduate. He started working at KFC on July 25, 1991 and Wal-Mart March 29, 1995. He had worked both jobs until he was forced to quit in November 2011 after he had fallen at church. Lloyd believed in doing God's work and was involved with the Peace Corps which allowed him to go to Guatemala. He fell in love with the people, learned a whole new language and made six more trips there. He also sponsored a family, Ana and Pedro Lopez de Mateo and young son Lwin. He paid for her education at SDSU and they lived with him while in South Dakota. Lloyd was able to go to Guatemala with them and meet their families. He truly thought the best of everyone and would always give a hand up to anyone. He was thrilled and very humbled when he helped with Habitat for Humanity and was able to work side by side with Jimmy Carter in 1994 as they built homes in Eagle Butte. He also helped with the first Habitat home in Brookings in 1996 and several after that. Lloyd was very proud to be a member of Sons of Norway Brookings Lodge and wished he could eat lutefisk every day. He was involved in Sinai Lutheran Church and ushered for many years before moving to Brookings in 1992. He recently became a member of First Lutheran Church of Volga where he had also been an usher. His faith was very strong and when he could no longer drive, he would pay to take the BATA bus back and forth to Volga to go to church. He loved being a "People Greeter" at Wal-Mart, especially handing out stickers to the kids. Everyone called him Grandpa Lloyd. Lloyd is survived by his "adopted" families, Keri (Joe) Skroch, Bayli, Donley and Coy of Aurora and Connie McFarland of Brookings, Staci and Regan Conley of Florence, KY, and Billie Jo McFarland of Brookings, and Ana (Pedro) Lopez-deMateo, Lwin and Xanun of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and several cousins and special friends. Lloyd was preceded in death by his father, mother, and grandparents.