Longtime Butler County 4-H agent retiring after 40 years of service
MORGANTOWN, Ky. – At the Butler County Cooperative Extension Office, it’s the end of an era as longtime 4-H agent Lloyd Saylor is retiring after 40 years of serving his community.
“There won’t be another 4-H agent, especially in this county that will ever compare to him. I owe who I am today to Lloyd Saylor.”
“You’ll never find anybody that loves his job more than Lloyd Saylor did. His heart beats blue for the University of Kentucky and pumps green blood for 4-H.”
Those are just some of the things his friends and co-workers said about him. Saylor has worked with countless generations, and they’ve got plenty of stories to share about the man himself.
“When I was younger, I shot on the 4-H trap team with Lloyd as a 4-Her… and then I went through school and came back and started working here in 1997… and he and I worked together for 28 years, and then I still retired before he did… and then he helped raise my daughter and so many more through the 4-H program,” former Butler County Extension agent Greg Drake II says.
“I met Lloyd when I was eight years old, but I really didn’t know Lloyd until I was about 13 or 14, and I started in with the Butler County Teen Club. If it wasn’t for Lloyd, I wouldn’t be who I am today. He’s the one that pushed me to get into the extra programs. That’s not stuff that he had to do. He’s done that for so many people in this community. We will never replace him,” Luke Mooneyhan, a Morgantown Police officer and former 4-H student of Saylor’s, shares.
But far beyond the stories is the impact Lloyd is leaving behind in the 4-H program in Butler County.
“We had three state 4-H officers here in Lloyd’s term, and there are only four… and [in] recent years, five 4-H kids that are state officers per year. So for a county to have three in one agent’s career is just incredible,” Drake II says.
“He’s made a huge difference here in Butler County… and just having that positive role model in Lloyd… and he’s just provided so much as a safe place for kids and just so many good times with kids,” Todd County 4-H agent Lee Ann McCuisten says.
As he retires, Saylor has one message for both the Butler County community and future 4-Hers.
“What you do matters. If you show up and volunteer, it matters. It makes a difference. Those people are the key to the program… and the interest they have in the kids and the parents and some of the kids and putting forth their time and effort. That’s what makes the program run,” he says.
Congratulations to Lloyd Saylor on 40 years of service to the Butler County community!
