In mid-May, the city of Peachtree Corners installed a Memorial Children’s Free Library in the Children’s Corner at the Town Green to honor the life of Benjamin “Lloyd” Cloer, whose promising future was ended by senseless gun violence in November 2019.
The little library was donated by Cloer’s father, Steve Cloer, and encourages young people to take a book and leave a book to foster increased literacy and the love of reading. A Norcrossa High School graduate (where he was an honor student), Cloer was 26 years old and was but three weeks away from completing requirements at the University of Georgia for his master’s degree in artificial intelligence when his life was taken. UGA awarded Cloer his degree posthumously in May 2020.
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