Lloyd's Pastry

Lloyd Davis, Sr. (1920-2013) married Leona Mae Ball (1924-2011) in 1946.

Lloyd was a WWII Navy veteran. He learned to bake working in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada, and in the Navy. He worked for several bakeries in Las Vegas and West Virginia.

Lloyd Davis Sr. opened his first bakery in Whiteville in 1947. He and his family moved to Keystone where he sold his bakery items out of a truck starting in 1948.

Lloyd opened Lloyd’s Pastry Shop in Princeton in 1950 and became famous for his butter rolls and pepperoni rolls. Many birthdays were celebrated with Lloyd’s wonderful birthday cakes. Two of the more memorable pastries you could get at Lloyd’s were the sugar raised yeast donuts, much better than what you can get today and the Longhorn. It was a flaky round pastry filled with a tasty white cream.

Lloyd Sr. retired in 1983 and turned the business over to his son Lloyd Davis Jr., and his wife Nancy. However, Lloyd Sr. continued to help with the shop until it closed in 2001.

Terri Carter, Lloyd Davis’ granddaughter and her family decided to honor the memory of the pastry shop and its owner by releasing Lloyd’s Pastry Shop:History in the Baking cookbook, which includes interviews from former employees, family photographs and a history of Lloyd Davis.

The cookbooks sold for $15 and the proceeds were donated to Princeton Middle School’s Bible in Schools program. “My grandfather was a wonderful Christian man,” said Carter. ‘We just wanted an organization to be able to benefit.”

---Princeton Times, March 27, 2015