The Snakedoctor’s Story: Late Shawnee resident’s family has Vietnam memoir published

Vietnam Veteran, Staff Sgt. Timothy Lawrence, of Shawnee, helps his grandson, Dale graduate Major Jerame Johnson, to prepare for deployment to Qatar from Fort Sill in Lawton in 2016. Both veterans retired from the Army after at least 20 years. Lawrence's family recently found his memoir and had it published, seven years after his passing — "leaving something behind so we could understand where he came from and what shaped him.” Photos provided
Vietnam Veteran, Staff Sgt. Timothy Lawrence, of Shawnee, helps his grandson, Dale graduate Major Jerame Johnson, to prepare for deployment to Qatar from Fort Sill in Lawton in 2016. Both veterans retired from the Army after at least 20 years. Lawrence's family recently found his memoir and had it published, seven years after his passing — "leaving something behind so we could understand where he came from and what shaped him.” Photos provided

Vietnam Veteran, Staff Sergeant Timothy J. Lawrence, of Shawnee, passed away on Aug. 24, 2019 - one day before his 78th birthday.

But what he left behind has brought his family together in his memory and given them a deeper insight into his life.

Lawrence’s family knew he had been writing his memoir from his 39-month tour of duty in Vietnam, but his daughter, Teresa Wolfe, of Dale, did not find the …