Lloyd Tiede never cries. “I have never seen my Dad cry besides when his father passed away,” said Adrianna Tiede, Lloyd’s daughter. But in a phone call with his daughter Thursday, Sept. 13, Tiede, 55, simply couldn’t hold back the tears any longer. And neither could she. “I could tell right when I picked up the phone that it wasn’t good news,” Adrianna said. “I answered and it was quiet on the other end.”
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