A good number of people were present at the thanksgiving service for Harry’s life at West Wickham Baptist Church on October 25.
He was born in Camberwell, South London, and brought up in Norbury. His maternal grandfather went to live with the Lawrence family when Harry was a boy, and Harry shared a bedroom with him. Seeing his grandfather kneeling by his bedside to pray made a lasting impression on Harry, who often said he would never know how much he owed to those prayers.
Harry and his wife, Hope, whom he met at Mount Zion Baptist Chapel in Watford, were married there in 1945, and moved near Croydon in 1946, where he and his family started attending Thornton Heath Evangelical Free Church. Harry continued with Sunday school teaching, and then became a deacon and, later, the church secretary. All four children were baptised at the church and both daughters married there.
