Patrick "Johnny" Lawrence

A Mass of Christian Burial for Patrick ” Johnny” Lawrence (Llorense) will be 11 am Monday, July 13, 2009 at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Melrose, LA with Reverend Jacob Thomas officiating. Interment will follow at St. Augustine Catholic Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the church from 9 am until service time on Monday. Patrick died Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at his home in Alexandria. He was born April 2, 1961 to Mary Conant Lawrence and Patrick Lawrence. He was a native of Los Angeles, California. He attended St. Albert’s Elementary Catholic School, Gardena High School and El Camino College of California. He worked for Pacific Bell Telephone Company from 1977 to 1982, then he worked as a truck driver until 1997. Patrick married Cecelia Richardson in 1996 and they enjoyed 13 years of marriage. In 2006, he moved from the “big city” to Louisiana where he bought his “home in the country”. He enjoyed his life in Louisiana, especially working for Atty. & Mrs. William Crews of Natchitoches, whom he considered his family. Patrick was preceded in death by his father, Patrick Lawrence; grandparents, Joseph and Josephine Conant and Felecia and Victor “Dunwood” Llorense. Patrick leaves to cherish his memory his wife, Cecelia Richardson Lawrence; his mother, Mary Eloisa Conant Shelby; his father, Brent Shelby; brothers, Rodney Lawrence (Sylvia) and Todd Shelby; step-daughters, Kisha Coleman and Heather Coleman; grandsons, Milow, Kashawn, Airon, Cornelious, Cord, Todd and Alex Coleman; uncle, Joseph Conant (Darnell); aunts, Dorothy LaCour (Simon) and Bobbie Lawrence (Audry); numerous nieces, nephews, cousins as well as a host of extended family and cherished friends.