Charles Lloyd 3rd died unexpectedly at his Falmouth home on Sunday, Jan. 18 at the age of 56.

He was born in Atlantic City, N.J. After three years in the Army serving overseas in Viet Nam, he began a 30-year career as a newspaper pressman at the St. Petersburg Times and Independent in St. Petersburg, Fla.

His newspaper odyssey took him to Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, England, New York and North Carolina, and in 2000 brought him to the Vineyard where he assumed the position of press operator at the Vineyard Gazette. He left in 2003 to take a similar position with the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, from which he retired.

Charlie was a skilled pressman, and holds the distinction of being the only press operator to print a full-process color section on the Gazette’s four-unit Goss Community press. He was an avid fisherman, boater, outdoorsman and storyteller.

He is survived by his five children Mark Lloyd, Lena Lloyd, Elliot Lloyd, George Lloyd and Alexander Lloyd; three sisters, Laurie Stover, Patti Hauge and Jewel Benson; and three former wives, including Louise Lloyd of Falmouth who is advertising director for the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine.

A funeral service will be held at St. Patrick’s Church on Main street in Falmouth at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 26. Interment will follow at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne at 12:45 p.m. A gathering will be held at the South Cape Resort & Club, 950 Falmouth Road in Mashpee at 2 p.m.