Lawrence J. Pierce

Our deepest sympathies to you and your family. We enjoyed meeting and talking with your father and watching him work in his beloved garden.

My grandfather was well into his 90's when the internet came into being, and he probably didn't have the slightest concept of an online guestbook. But he would have feigned interest and appreciated the concept. I signed up for a permanent sponsorship, whatever that means in internet space. I can only hope it will be as enduring as the impact my grandfather had my mom, on myself, and then through me on my sons, and my future grandchildren, and so on and so on.

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I came to know Lawrence Pierce in the early 1970s through our mutual interest in rhododendrons. He was a real gentleman, always generous and kind, and one of my rhododendron mentors. I shall always remember him with fondness.
It was during the 1970s that the distinguished rhododendron authority at the Royal Botanical Garden at Edinburgh, David Davidian, visited the Pacific Northwest and later named a red-flowering magnificent rhododendron species in honor of Lawrence and Isabelle...

Dear Jack and Leilia, Ray and I send our deepest sympathy and prayers to you and the family over the loss of your beloved Lawrence, or "Grandpa Pierce" as we knew him. Grandpa was such a special man--one of a kind--who loved life and family. His beautiful family is a tribute to the wonderful husband, grandpa, dad, and friend he was to all. We know he has been welcomed into God's loving hands. Love, Kathy and Ray Smith