Lloyd Stone

[2][3] His parents, Lowends Columbus Stone and Gurtha Emalaine Marr were born in Missouri and married there in 1910[4] before moving to California.

In California, Lowends Stone got a job as a "well puller" working for the Associated Oil Company of Coalinga, on the Shawmut lease.

[9] The Hawaiian journal, The Islander praised his poetry: "Mr. Stone is probably among the most versatile contributors to the arts of whom Hawaii can boast.

"[citation needed] In 1944 KGU News ran a poetry program entitled Lei of Hours, featuring Lloyd Stone and Don Blanding.

[6] Lloyd Stone composed a musical based on Joyce Kilmer's poetry, and a production by the Golden Age Chorus aired on television in 1980.

In 1934, Ira B. Wilson of the Lorenz Publishing Company set Stone's words to the hymn-like portion of Finlandia by Jean Sibelius.

The Finlandia Hymn is more appropriately applied to the work that appeared seven years after A Song of Peace was published — when the words of the Finnish poet Veikko Koskenniemi were set to Sibelius's music.

The executive secretary of the Guild, Marion Norris, asked Georgia Elma Harkness to give Lloyd Stone's poem a more Christian character.

[5] Secretary of Defense Lewis Johnson read Stone's poem "Song of Peace" at Arlington Cemetery, and the poem was also read as part of the Punchbowl War Memorial Cemetery dedication ceremony and American Association of University Women's 1950 convention in Wichita, Kansas.

[35] His two-line obituary in the Fresno Bee described him as "a retired teacher", and made no mention of his poems, his being the poet laureate of Hawaii, or his well-known "Song of Peace".