Lawrence's family lived in Pratt County, Kansas until about 1930. His father brought them to the Panhandle and bought property as it was better for Gertrude's health and within a days travel of their Kansas families. And so they settled in Hooker, Oklahoma. Lawrence graduated from Hooker High School, and graduated from Oklahoma State when it was called Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical and their mascot was a Tiger. And then he obtained a degree from Wichita Business College. He excelled in wood working, carpentry, and mathematics. He was a member of the Methodist Church before his marriage to Ulah Mae Fox, who had often been his piano accompanist as he played his C Melody Saxophone from the time he was 16. He had been a member of the Hooker City Band, and is the Saxophone player with his hat tipped at a jaunty angle in their photo. He farmed with his father and helped milk the cows at both farms . He took over his father's farming operation west of town. As an usher in the First Baptist Church, he called himself a doorkeeper for the Lord. Lawrence and Ulah Mae raised a variety of livestock and supported their children in all their activities such as 4H, FFA, Boyscouts and more. Lawrence imported a Landrace boar pig from Denmark and began raising a big operation of lean, pork animals. When the wheat was all planted in the Spring, they loved to get away to their cabin above Idlewild, Eagle Nest, New Mexico, to hunt and fish, leaving the farm in care of a hired hand. Always willing to help a neighbor, friend or stranger, he liked the words of the poem, "The House by the Side of the Road" in part it says: "Let me live in my house by the side of the road- It's here the race of men go by. They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong, wise, foolish- so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man." Lawrence fell ill and died too early leaving his family in 1978. But he'll be just inside the door, on that yonder shore, looking for his loved ones to come in.