Mary Lawrence
From Lacey Green History
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Mary Lawrence born in 1940 was the daughter of Jack & Ethel Lawrence. Click Jack & Mrs Lawrence
In 1963 Mary's mother died. By then the family smallholding and cottage of 1932 had grown to become a farm and sizeable grocery store with a Post Office. click Hill Croft and Jack & Mrs Lawrence for more about Mary's life.
The shop had been largely run by Mrs Lawrence, with the added assistance firstly of Jean and later of Mary
1970 Mary Sub-Postmistress
In 1970 Jack became ill. Mrs Lawrence had died and Jean had married and left so it was decided to reduce the shop-cum-Post Office, leaving one small extension for Mary to run and Mary was appointed Sub-Postmistress. From now on only a few useful things were stocked in the shop, including of course eggs.
1993. Congratulations to our Post Mistress, Mary Lawrence, recently honoured by the Post Office for 23 years’ service
Mary continued with her little shop and Post Office until 1997 when she decided to close it.
Mary Lawrence of Loosley Row Post Office, died in 2019. She was much loved, and greatly missed.