B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 30, 1997 Long-time notary dies MANY WERE saddened to hear of the death of long- time resident Lawrence Wil- liam Clay. Clay died peace- fully at his home on Babine Lake, March 30. He was 84 years old. Clay was a long time notary republic in Terrace. Clay was an orphan from World War I. His father was killed in the war and his mother died in 1924, and so Clay went to live with an uncle in England, He joined the merchant marines at age 14 and by age 16 his relatives agreed to let him move to Canada. In those days every rail- way station in England had large posters of golden Ca- nadian wheatfields with wagons being loaded by healthy, contented people. That was enough for Clay. He arrived in Halifax in 1929, and travelled to the farming community of Lindsay, Ontario dressed in a grey Harris tweed suit, polished shoes and a hal, looking very British. He was assigned to work at a local farm, where the farmer greeted him as, “another damned English- man.”’ He spent two years doing hard brutal work on the farm. Then Clay spent three years in the army at St. John, Quebec, doing a sur- vey job in northem Ontario, Finally, the lure of