Archie was born the youngest of eight children of George Robbin Lawrence and Anna May Moehrle. He was born at 2603 West Huntingdon Street in Philadelphia. He was named after his maternal grandmother's second husband, Archibald Rainey.
Father of five children.
He was an avid hunter during his youth and middle age, especially deer hunting trips to Trout Run, Pa. with his brothers and nephews. He almost always owned a hunting dog of some kind except when he got older. A mason contractor by trade in business for himself for many years. He was apprenticed to his older brother Philip as a 14 year old to learn masonry. He was a plasterer, brick and cinder block layer, but was also adept at carpentry. Later in life he worked as an "oiler" mechanic on heavy equipment for James D. Morrisey Co. in Philadelphia. He lived most of his life in Bucks County, Pa, but with periods in Florida and New Jersey. He renovated homes that he lived in early in his marriage but built his own homes starting in 1951, several in Bucks County, Pa and one in Nokomis, Florida. He once worked for Bethlehem Steel on Cape Cod, Mass. as the concrete foreman on the Otis Air Force Base hangar there in 1956.
Father of five children.
He was an avid hunter during his youth and middle age, especially deer hunting trips to Trout Run, Pa. with his brothers and nephews. He almost always owned a hunting dog of some kind except when he got older. A mason contractor by trade in business for himself for many years. He was apprenticed to his older brother Philip as a 14 year old to learn masonry. He was a plasterer, brick and cinder block layer, but was also adept at carpentry. Later in life he worked as an "oiler" mechanic on heavy equipment for James D. Morrisey Co. in Philadelphia. He lived most of his life in Bucks County, Pa, but with periods in Florida and New Jersey. He renovated homes that he lived in early in his marriage but built his own homes starting in 1951, several in Bucks County, Pa and one in Nokomis, Florida. He once worked for Bethlehem Steel on Cape Cod, Mass. as the concrete foreman on the Otis Air Force Base hangar there in 1956.
Archie was born the youngest of eight children of George Robbin Lawrence and Anna May Moehrle. He was born at 2603 West Huntingdon Street in Philadelphia. He was named after his maternal grandmother's second husband, Archibald Rainey.
Father of five children.
He was an avid hunter during his youth and middle age, especially deer hunting trips to Trout Run, Pa. with his brothers and nephews. He almost always owned a hunting dog of some kind except when he got older. A mason contractor by trade in business for himself for many years. He was apprenticed to his older brother Philip as a 14 year old to learn masonry. He was a plasterer, brick and cinder block layer, but was also adept at carpentry. Later in life he worked as an "oiler" mechanic on heavy equipment for James D. Morrisey Co. in Philadelphia. He lived most of his life in Bucks County, Pa, but with periods in Florida and New Jersey. He renovated homes that he lived in early in his marriage but built his own homes starting in 1951, several in Bucks County, Pa and one in Nokomis, Florida. He once worked for Bethlehem Steel on Cape Cod, Mass. as the concrete foreman on the Otis Air Force Base hangar there in 1956.
Father of five children.
He was an avid hunter during his youth and middle age, especially deer hunting trips to Trout Run, Pa. with his brothers and nephews. He almost always owned a hunting dog of some kind except when he got older. A mason contractor by trade in business for himself for many years. He was apprenticed to his older brother Philip as a 14 year old to learn masonry. He was a plasterer, brick and cinder block layer, but was also adept at carpentry. Later in life he worked as an "oiler" mechanic on heavy equipment for James D. Morrisey Co. in Philadelphia. He lived most of his life in Bucks County, Pa, but with periods in Florida and New Jersey. He renovated homes that he lived in early in his marriage but built his own homes starting in 1951, several in Bucks County, Pa and one in Nokomis, Florida. He once worked for Bethlehem Steel on Cape Cod, Mass. as the concrete foreman on the Otis Air Force Base hangar there in 1956.
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