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I met Larry in the mid-sixties (nineteen sixties!) - he almost terrified me! But he very generously invited me to live with the Marriers while I attended Grade 13 - Marilyn was doing that, too. Bruce was an organ student here at St. Paul`s, and I quickly began organ lessons with Lawrence Ritchey, as well. Glen was just a little pain! Larry was managing a pretty dynamic household in a pretty dynamic way - his shopping list was amazing!
Larry very quickly made me feel like a member of the family - not in any formal ways, but in many informal ways. In my second year with the Marriers, Larry very gently suggested he wouldn’t mind introducing me to the men`s store where he shopped. As I recall, he let me buy a green suit - A GREEN SUIT!! But I realized that my stepfather would never have been able to give me that guidance.
Larry also pointed out that he`d be happy to introduce me to his lawyer, J. Royce McQuaig, to help me with some documentation I would need before going to university. Again, I remember his guidance as being very gentle.
Then, many years later, Larry and I went canoeing up a road north of the Hodder Avenue Hotel. I moved to help him lift the canoe off the car, but he assured me he preferred to do it himself - subtly teaching me that sometimes it is easier for someone to do by themselves what they were accustomed to doing! We had a beautiful, peaceful few hours encircling a small lake - a wonderful time together that I will always cherish.
So Larry was really the third father-figure in my life. I wrote him a letter many years ago and told him how much I had appreciated him. I`m so glad I did that! Brian Hubelit