LAWRENCE ALBERT DUNNING was born September 18, 1868 in Fremont, Ohio to Edwin and Charlotte Lawrence Dunning. The family moved to Tennessee and Washington states. In 1930 Lawrence was single, living with his brother Ralph in Seldovia.
In 1933, he married Eunice SIMARD. Eunice was born in Montana and had come to Seldovia by 1930 where she was living with her mother, Alma and brother, Francis, at the home of John Coburn. John was a cook at a restaurant and Alma also worked there. Three children were born to Lawrence and Eunice in Seldovia.
Larry also owned the boat “Seward” that he sometimes used to haul coal from the Homer side of Kachemak Bay over to Seldovia.
In the mid 1920s there was a sawmill on Powder Island that was owned by partners Lawrence Dunning and Archie Keller. The mill was powered by a steam boiler fed with slabs of wood.
At the time of his death on March 25, 1940, Lawrence was a janitor at the school.