Perhaps my time seemed all too brief Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief. If my parting has left a void Then fill it with remembered joy. Be not burdened with times of sorrow I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.

Graveside services will be conducted on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 1:00pm at the Pine Grove Baptist Church. The Reverend Glendora Hargrove will officiate.

Reverend Lawrence E. Harrison was born January 10, 1943 in Warren County, North Carolina to the late Palmer and Sylvester G. Harrison. He departed this life on April 23, 2020 at Duke Regional Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina at the age of 77 years old.

He was married to the Eva Goins Harrison who passed away in 2001.

Reverend Harrison preferred to be called Lawrence, worked at Leggett Department store, Warren Co. Sheriff and Police Department and was an owner of a local convenient store and restaurant in Littleton, North Carolina.

He was a lifelong member of Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church. In 1976, he was called to be one of Gods under shepherds. A graduate of Shaw Divinity School, in Raleigh North Carolina he served as Pastor of Woodsworth Baptist Church in Townsville, North Carolina for over thirty years before retiring. Although, he continued to do God’s work. In addition to his parents and wife, his is preceded in death by three sisters; Ella Bullock, Inez Spruill, and Mary Foster.

He is survived by his loving family and friends; two sons, Lawrence Harrison and Anthony A. Harrison and her wife, Julie Harrison their two sons, Antonio Andra Harrison and Thy Anthony Harrison; three sisters, Katherine Kearney, Gloria Harrison and Lottie Atkinson (Fred); two brothers, Gillis Harrison (Mary) and Thomas Harris (Barbara), one aunt, Sallie Harrison; along with a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends; one sister-in-law, Joanna; and his adopted church family, Woodsworth Baptist Church all of whom he loved dearly.