In the News
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Herald Journal Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018
One Hundred Years and Counting: Logan Centenarian has Stories to Tell
Lloyd Clement of Logan, a retired Utah State University professor, said in 1998 he believed his lifetime was approaching its end, so he wrote in his journal and made sure all of his affairs were settled. Twenty years later, Clement is celebrating 100 years of living that has taken him everywhere from an isolated farmtown in central Utah to the Mariana Islands, Bolivia, West Africa and ultimately Cache Valley. ... The first world war ended before his first birthday, and his earliest memories are a time of prosperity between 1920-30. He went to school, where he excelled in his studies, and he worked with his father on the farm. ... By war’s end, the Clement family had moved to Washington, so that is where he went home to, and it was there he met a young Billie Wilson a few years later. ... They were married there in May 1950, and a year later, they found themselves on the side of the road at the mouth of Sardine Canyon.They were on their way to Utah State University where Clement planned to study economics on the recommendation of an aptitude test provided in the military. “When we came down the old highway in Sardine, we came around the last turn, as we come out of the canyon — it was the end of May or the first of June and it was a bright sunshiny spring day — and we looked out over the valley,” Clement recalls. “From that point you are high enough to see over the valley. The temple jumped out at us and everything looked so beautiful and green — what we did was pull off the side of the road and just sit there and look. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing, and right then we decided this was where we were going to stay, and we did.” ... He retired from Utah State University as an economics professor.