Avis de décès de Francis-E. Lawrence

Francis E. Lawrence LYONS, NJ Francis Earl Lawrence, 94, died January 31, 2015, at the VA Hospital in Lyons, NJ. He was born July 26, 1920, to Benjamin F. and Mabel Jones Lawrence in Utica, NY. He graduated Utica Free Academy, attended Utica College and the Excelsior Business School. In 1942, he married Edith Ellen Hutchison. He worked for Savage Arms in Utica before entering the Army later in 1942. He served proudly from 1942 to 1945 with General Patton's Third Army and saw action in Northern France, Central Europe, Ardennes and Rhineland's Battle of the Bulge as a member of the Signal Corps. While living in Utica, he was a member of the Amicable Masonic Lodge in New Hartford and Superintendent of Sunday School at First Presbyterian Church. After WW II, he returned home and began a long career with New York Bell Telephone. He retired after 38 years of employment culminating as a Project Engineering Manager in the New York City Office. He moved his family to Belle Mead, New Jersey, in 1959 for a work transfer. He was active in the community as a Montgomery Township Fire Department Volunteer, President of Hill-Mont Little League and on the Montgomery Township School Board. He was an active member of the Harlington Reformed Church. Also, a member of several bridge clubs, he was an avid hunter and fisherman. He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings, Earl, Alice, Helen, Howard and Ralph. After 65 years of marriage, his wife, Edith, died in 2008. He is survived by sons, Richard A., of Elon, NC, and Bruce E., of Maggie Valley, NC; a daughter, Carol L. Workman, of Burke, VA; and a grandson, Christopher Campbell, of Burke, VA. He will be cremated and graveside services will be held at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY, later in the spring. Arrangements are under the direction of the Hillsborough Funeral Home.