Lloyd Llewellyn Piper, II

Lloyd Llewellyn Piper, II

April 28, 1944 – April 7, 2026

Lloyd was born in Wareham, Massachusetts on April 28, 1944.  He graduated from Central Catholic High School in San Antonio.  He attended Texas A&M University where he graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering as a part of the Class of 1965.  He was a proud member of Squadron Seven in the Corps in his 4 years at Texas A&M as well as being part of the Fish Drill Team.   While in school he met and married his wife of over sixty years, Jane Melonie Scruggs Piper, who was in nursing school in Houston at the time.  Lloyd later obtained a Masters of Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston.

Lloyd had the challenge of remaking himself through multiple careers, starting off as an electrical engineer at Houston Lighting and Power before becoming a project manager for Dow Chemical Company and then Ortloff Engineers.  He started his own turnkey engineering and construction company, Plantech ultimately working with the support of Dillingham Construction International to create a successor company Delta Plantech.  He shifted technologies again going to work as an executive for Chem Waste Management in Chicago and then Houston, before finally becoming an SES employee for the Department of Energy overseeing the clean-up at the Hanford site in Richland, Washington and finally the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant based near Carlsbad, New Mexico.   He retired to College Station to watch Aggie sports and be closer to his grandchildren and ultimately to Galveston to live in Islander East next to the waves with Melonie and supported by the care of their niece Nancy Gay Chumchal Mendieta.

During his career he served his profession through long involvement with the National Society of Professional Engineers where he was named national Young Engineer of the Year in 1976 and was chairman of the Professional Engineers in Industrial Practice Division and later the Professional Engineers in Construction Division. He served his community as President of the Water Control & Improvement District #132 for much of his initial time in Houston.

He is predeceased by his parents, Lloyd Llewellyn Piper and Mary Elizabeth Brown Piper, and his aunt Margaret Loretta Brown.  He is survived by his wife, Jane Melonie Scruggs Piper; brother and sister-in-law, Douglas John Piper and Paula Duffin Piper; son and daughter-in-law, Michael Wayne Piper and Tamara Gayle Lovell; and grandchildren, Madeleine Eleanor Piper, Kathryn Anne Piper, Elizabeth Jane Piper, and Liam Thomas Piper.

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