AppreciationLawrence Lally, 1934-2015
Lawrence Lally, the father of the Homeland Security News Wire’s publisher Grant Lally, passed a few days ago. Lawrence’s parents lost their Long Island publishing business during the Great Depression, but Lawrence never lost his interest in writing and publishing. He was a successful attorney and real estate developer, and he owned, developed, and was involved in many other businesses, but he found his involvement with the North Shore Leader, of which he was the publisher, to be among the most rewarding and fulfilling of his many ventures. He was also close to HSNW, and often discussed it with his son, Grant. Earlier this week the Leader published an obituary for Lawrence Lally, and we are publishing it in HSNW with the Leader’s permission.
Lawrence Lally, the father of the Homeland Security News Wire’s publisher Grant Lally, passed a few days ago. Lawrence’s parents lost their Long Island publishing business during the Great Depression, but Lawrence never lost his interest in writing and publishing. He was a successful attorney and real estate developer, and he owned, developed, and was involved in many other business ventures, but he found his involvement with the North Shore Leader, of which he was the publisher, to be among the most rewarding and fulfilling of his many ventures. He was also close to HSNW, and often discussed it with his son, Grant. Earlier this week the Leader published an obituary of Lawrence Lally, and we are publishing it in HSNW with the Leader’s permission.
The Leader’s obituary for Lawrence Lally
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of our longtime publisher, Lawrence Lally.
These past fourteen years, under Lally’s leadership of this paper, have been a pleasure for all of us on the Leader’s staff. Lawrence Lally saw this newspaper as his most important and fulfilling civic duty, a service to our community, and a vital chronicler of life on the North Shore.
We knew Lally as a good man, a true renaissance man. He was meticulous in his attention to detail and his appreciation of precision. He had a passion for the law, sailing, travel, family, journalism, business, and history. He was wonderful to work with. He was refined and unfailingly polite, with a great sense of humor and appreciation of the simplest things in life. We remember his cheer over a warm spring day, his joy watching his grandchildren’s school play, or sheer delight in spotting a red fox crossing the lawn at his home here on Centre Island, New York.
He knew presidents, prime ministers, cabinet members, senators, and judges, but nothing pleased him more than a relaxed lunch at a local restaurant with members of his family. Lawrence, in his understated, undemonstrative manner, always emphasized how thankful he was for so much in his life.
