Lawrence "Babe" Wellnitz was a lifelong farmer in Palmyra and Hudson Townships. Born in the City of Adrian in 1920, on Maple Avenue at Springbrook, in a large house near the ice company, his family later moved to rural Palmyra near the old community of Leroy where Lawrence grew up and attended school. He helped his father with the farm work as a boy both in Palmyra and at his father's Hudson Township farm. As a teenager he helped build a private bridge over Bear Creek on the large family farm. A teenage diary he kept reveals an active social life of movies in town, parties, skating on the River Raisin, swimming, milking with the neighbors, picking apples, cutting and setting up corn, cutting brush and you name it. He graduated from Palmyra High School in 1936 and from Adrian Senior High School in 1938.
Lawrence served in WW2 in the US Army Air Corp in British Guiana and Jamaica as an airplane and engine mechanic. He was a marksman with carbine and pistol and earned a Bronze Battle Star for an Anti-Submarine Campaign. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
After the war he returned to farming at the Hudson farm south of Clayton with his parents and married Marjorie Beaverson October 13, 1950. They lived with the parents for several years before moving to their own place on Tomer Road in Hudson. Their daughter Diane was born in 1954. While the farms kept them very busy, he enjoyed the occasional family vacation trip, as well as hunting and fishing trips with friends.
Babe served as a Township trustee and a board member of the Clayton Telephone Company. He truly enjoyed farm life, and he was always easy-going and sociable with a smile for everyone. He is deeply missed by his family, always in our hearts.
Lawrence served in WW2 in the US Army Air Corp in British Guiana and Jamaica as an airplane and engine mechanic. He was a marksman with carbine and pistol and earned a Bronze Battle Star for an Anti-Submarine Campaign. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
After the war he returned to farming at the Hudson farm south of Clayton with his parents and married Marjorie Beaverson October 13, 1950. They lived with the parents for several years before moving to their own place on Tomer Road in Hudson. Their daughter Diane was born in 1954. While the farms kept them very busy, he enjoyed the occasional family vacation trip, as well as hunting and fishing trips with friends.
Babe served as a Township trustee and a board member of the Clayton Telephone Company. He truly enjoyed farm life, and he was always easy-going and sociable with a smile for everyone. He is deeply missed by his family, always in our hearts.
Lawrence "Babe" Wellnitz was a lifelong farmer in Palmyra and Hudson Townships. Born in the City of Adrian in 1920, on Maple Avenue at Springbrook, in a large house near the ice company, his family later moved to rural Palmyra near the old community of Leroy where Lawrence grew up and attended school. He helped his father with the farm work as a boy both in Palmyra and at his father's Hudson Township farm. As a teenager he helped build a private bridge over Bear Creek on the large family farm. A teenage diary he kept reveals an active social life of movies in town, parties, skating on the River Raisin, swimming, milking with the neighbors, picking apples, cutting and setting up corn, cutting brush and you name it. He graduated from Palmyra High School in 1936 and from Adrian Senior High School in 1938.
Lawrence served in WW2 in the US Army Air Corp in British Guiana and Jamaica as an airplane and engine mechanic. He was a marksman with carbine and pistol and earned a Bronze Battle Star for an Anti-Submarine Campaign. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
After the war he returned to farming at the Hudson farm south of Clayton with his parents and married Marjorie Beaverson October 13, 1950. They lived with the parents for several years before moving to their own place on Tomer Road in Hudson. Their daughter Diane was born in 1954. While the farms kept them very busy, he enjoyed the occasional family vacation trip, as well as hunting and fishing trips with friends.
Babe served as a Township trustee and a board member of the Clayton Telephone Company. He truly enjoyed farm life, and he was always easy-going and sociable with a smile for everyone. He is deeply missed by his family, always in our hearts.
Lawrence served in WW2 in the US Army Air Corp in British Guiana and Jamaica as an airplane and engine mechanic. He was a marksman with carbine and pistol and earned a Bronze Battle Star for an Anti-Submarine Campaign. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
After the war he returned to farming at the Hudson farm south of Clayton with his parents and married Marjorie Beaverson October 13, 1950. They lived with the parents for several years before moving to their own place on Tomer Road in Hudson. Their daughter Diane was born in 1954. While the farms kept them very busy, he enjoyed the occasional family vacation trip, as well as hunting and fishing trips with friends.
Babe served as a Township trustee and a board member of the Clayton Telephone Company. He truly enjoyed farm life, and he was always easy-going and sociable with a smile for everyone. He is deeply missed by his family, always in our hearts.
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