Hello Keitha,
There are quite a few LAWRENCE buried here if you click the link.
That cemetery is in the Pahiatua, Woodville, Eketahuna area.
If you can give me a couple of names I will be able to help you - like your father or mother or other family members, where they lived etc

Here are the names of some LEWIS in the Dannevirke, Eketahuna, Woodville cemeteries

My father name Rex,grandfather Jimmy or James Lawrence he drowed in Wairoa River in 1960 age 60.
His family is from Pahiatua, not sure but i think
his mum is Emma and his dad is James Lawrence.

Kia Ora: I remember Jimmy Lawrence, my grandfather from Wairoa. I remembered the day he died early 1960's say about 1961/62/63?; bringing our family fishing boat back from Napier, both grand dad and boat lost. Only one gumboot was found. Jimmy was Wairoa's Freemasonary member/ businessman-Lawrence Motors-buses and taxis services and Mayor of Wairoa. Lawrence Motors was sited in North Cyde near the Wairoa River. Lawrence Park was to be sited in McLean Street, the Park named after him. His first wife was a chieftainess called Hariata my grandmother, both married in the forest of TaneMahuta, the old Maori way. The Lawrence family is related to the Gregories family from Scotland as Gregories uncle was Arthur Lawrence of Paahiatua.
Tena Koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa

Hi Keitha,
For you to have been born in the old Cook Hospital, I'm picking one of your folks were from that area.
Approx 10km Nor West of Wairoa, past a small settlement called Frazertown,is what is known as the back road to Gisborne.
On this road is a place called Te Renga Falls.
There is a fork in the road,the left Fork leads to one of the few gate ways into the Eastern Uruwera's, the right Fork leads to Hangaroa and Gisborne.(Approx 1 hrs drive.)
The Lewis family's that I have heard of come from this Marea located in the area.
Many were known to be top Shears to the Povety Bay area,and are well known by the dry stock farmers here.
I hope this wee bit is off use in your quest.

The Lawrence and Lewis folk who are buried in the Pahiatua - Eketahuna - Woodville - Dannevirke areas

Allen Lawrence, 23/09/1943 age 77
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Anne Lawrence 26/02/1988 age 71
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Brian Charle Lawrence, 17/09/2006 age 57
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Charles Howard Lawrence 29/07/2000 83
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Douglas Charles Lawrence 14/9/1899 age 1.2
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Ellen Alice Lawrence 26/12/1976 age 67
- at Lawn Eketahuna
Emma Lawrence 18-7-1922 age 49
- birth year of about 1873
- at Mangatainoka Pahiatua
Eric William Lawrence 25/10/1911 age 6
- at Mangatainoka Pahiatua
Eric Lawrence 26/03/1919 age 7.6
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Harry Arnold Lawrence 15/8/1911 age 24
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Holly Maud Lawrence 12/02/1895 age 1
- at Mangatainoka Pahiatua
Ida Clara Lawrence 17/1/1901 age 1.8
- at Old Gorge Woodville
James Lawrence 19/8/1901 age 61
- at Old Gorge Woodville
James Victor Lawrence 6/1/1918 age 48
- birth year of about 1870
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Jessie Blackwood Ord Lawrence 27/10/1958 age 35
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
John Spencer Lawrence 2/09/1977 age 66
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Margart Charlotte Lawrence 31/8/1967 age 92
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Maren Elizabeth Lawrence 4/01/1939 age 63
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Mary Lawrence 3/3/1910 age 70
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Maryann Lawrence 18/5/1887 age 20
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Owen Lloyd Lawrence 12/7/1971 age 69
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Sarah Lawrence 25/10/1915 age 91
- at Old Gorge Woodville
Sidney Lawrence 22/08/1909 age 17
- at Mangatainoka Pahiatua
Vincent James Lawrence 13/1/1853 age 54
- at Old Gorge Woodville

Anthony Lewis 9/6/1917 age 77
- at Alfredton Eketahuna
Antonia Catherine Lewis 24/4/1964 age 83
- at Mangatera Dannevirke
Colin Robert Lewis 5/12/2006 age 67
- at Lawn Woodville
Edward Peter Lewis 2/4/1921 age 19
- at Mangatera Dannevirke
Gwynne James Lewis 2/2/1904 age 75
- at Mangaoranga Eketahuna
Henry Lewis 12/11/1953 age 83
- at Mangatera Dannevirke
Mabel Mary Lewis 13/8/1989 age 79
- at Mangatera Dannevirke
Mary Joyce Lewis 2/12/1918 age 5.6
- at Mangatera Dannevirke