Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lawrence, William Simmons October 15, 2000
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Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - Wednesday, October 18, 2000 
William S. Lawrence died Oct. 15, 2000, in his residence.



Mr. Lawrence was a native of Norfolk, and the son of the late Charles O. 
Lawrence and Laurie Simmons Lawrence. He was preceded in death by his brother, 
Charles O. Lawrence Jr.



He attended Taylor Elementary, Blair Junior and Maury High schools, the Norfolk 
Division of William and Mary and the University of Virginia and left college to 
be commissioned in the U.S. Coast Guard. He was a member and former vestryman 
of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia.



Mr. Lawrence was a veteran of World War II. Although he was in the Coast Guard, 
he was attached to the U.S. Navy and was its youngest skipper during that 
period. He served in anti-submarine warfare duty from Boston to the Caribbean 
and South America and later was the commanding officer of the LST787 which was 
a landing and transport ship. He commanded the lead ship into Iwo Jima, served 
two years in the Pacific Theater and two years in the Atlantic Theater. He was 
discharged with the rank of lieutenant commander.



He entered the life insurance business with the Northwestern Mutual Life 
Insurance Company and worked for 52 years. He was a member of the Norfolk Life 
Underwriters Association and served on its board, and was a chartered life 
underwriter and a life member of the Million Roundtable. He was a member of the 
Norfolk German Club; founder of Norfolk Young Life; and founder of the Prayer 
Breakfast with Dick Woodward.



Survivors include his wife, Meeta Myers Lawrence; two daughters, Meeta L. Jones 
and her husband, William H. Jones, Laurie L. Reilly and her husband, Craig E. 
Reilly; and four grandchildren, William Craig Reilly, Katherine Barton Reilly, 
Noah William Jones and Joshua Hillebrand Jones; his sister-in-law, Hazel 
Callehan Lawrence; and a nephew, Charles O. Lawrence III.



A church service will be conducted at noon Friday at Christ and St. Luke's 
Episcopal Church by the Rev. James H.W. Sell. Burial will be at Elmwood 
Cemetery . Memorial donations may be made to Norfolk Young Life, 7305 Hampton 
Blvd., Norfolk, or the building fund of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 
Olney and Stockley Gardens, Norfolk, VA 23517. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., 
Norfolk, is handling arrangements 





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