Roy C. Lawrie

Roy C. Lawrie, age 83, of Wayne, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 31, 2025.

One of Sydney and Winifred (Griffith) Lawrie’s fourteen children, Roy was born in the north-east part of South America in the country of Guyana.

Roy met his wife Shirley who grew up in a nearby neighboring village. They were childhood friends who, as young adults, fell in love and ultimately married at St. George’s Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana.

As young adults, Roy and Shirley migrated to the United States in pursuit of opportunities and happiness this country afford. With the blessing of four beautiful children, two sons and two daughters, came a real responsibility to care and provide for them. Roy embraced that calling on his life and worked diligently and consistently, twenty-five hours a day, and eight days a week as a self-employed residential building contractor, electrician, and restaurant/bar owner. His family praised him for being a great provider and a truly awesome and loving father who always encouraged his sons and daughters to do their best and to get a good education.

In his spare time (though it is hard to imagine that he had any), Roy enjoyed farming and traveling with his beloved wife and life’s companion Shirley. They especially loved annual trips to Florida where they hoped to one day have property and a second home. Sadly, those plans never came to fruition as Roy contracted Alzheimer’s Disease at a relatively early age.

In good times, Roy was loved and admired for being a cherished, caring, and supportive husband, father, uncle, grandfather, and brother who always made his family his main focus and priority in his life.

While his family mourns his loss, they will ever hold and cherish warm memories of Roy in their hearts and are grateful that his pain and suffering are no more. Rest in peace Roy.

Roy was the beloved husband of Shirley (Ramdai) Lawrie, blessed in marriage for 60 years. He was the loving father of: Cleopatra, Nigel, Roswell, Rosanna, and Jason Pallimulla; whom Roy considered to be like one of his own sons; and a cherished grandfather of Reg, Dillan, Ryan, Devin, Milana, and Princeton.

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Those planning an expression of sympathy in Roy’s name are asked to consider:

Alzheimer’s New Jersey

425 Eagle Rock Avenue, 203

Roseland, NJ 07068

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