Lloyd Eugene
Drummonds

Retired principal was
known for sense of humor

Lloyd Eugene Drummonds,
a former principal for Flat
Rock Community Schools,
died of a heart attack
Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002, at
Mercy Memorial Hospital in
Monroe. He was 64.

Mr. Drummonds was born
on Dee. 27, 1937, in Jackson.
He graduated from Monroe
High School in 1956 and
served in
the Air
Force from
1958 to
1962.

Mr. Drum-
monds
married
Gladys
Rowe on
July 10,
1965, in
Midland.

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He  re-
ceived a bachelor’s degree
from Western Michigan
University and a mas-
ter’s degree from Eastern
Michigan University.

He began teaching at what
is now Simpson Middle
School in Flat Rock in 1966.
He later became assistant
principal at what is now
Flat Rock Community High
School.

He was’ principal of
Simpson from 1970 to 1992,
when he retired. For three
of those years, he was prin-
cipal of Barnes Elementary
School at the same time.

“He was an excellent
administrator, firm but fair,
and knew all his students’
names, knew them as _indi-
viduals rather than as just a
whole group of kids,” his
wife said.

He then served on the
Jefferson Schools Board of
Education in Frenchtown