Family
At his death, Lawrence was married to the former Sheila Davis, who was originally from Brushfork, West Virginia . Not long after her husband's death, Davis moved political cartoonist Steve Kelley into Crown Manor, the lavish 27 bedroom mansion with 17 bathrooms on the Coronado beachfront that Lawrence had built for her. In April 1999, the couple had a son. A nasty custody battle over the fate of the child took place .
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