Lawrence John Layton

(aka "Iceman" or "LoBo")

March 25, 1960 - October 15, 2026

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of our dear brother and friend, Lawrence John Layton.

Born March 25, 1960, Lawrence was the third, and middle child, of Patricia & Albert Layton. He grew up on farm south of Kindersley where he participated in 4-H beef club and curling.

After highschool Lawrence took a farm machinery mechanics course at Kelsey Institute in Saskatoon. He worked briefly in the farm machinery business before moving to BC in the late 80's where he worked a number of carpentry and building maintenance jobs, including building manager for a high rise condo. Later, while working for a property manager, he started hanging out and helping at the Richmond Curling club. He says he got in the way there so much that he was hired as their ice maker. The job also included building maintenance. He worked at the club for 20 years and became known as the "Iceman". It was here that he earned his power engineering papers and received accolades from some of the top curlers for the club having "the best ice around". He was immensely dedicated to learning the art of creating perfect curling ice and was proud of having the best ice. In 2020 he moved to Kelowna as their ice maker until 2022 when his health forced him to retire and he returned to Burnaby.

While curling, and ice making, were his life's work and focus, Lawrence's passions also included golf, oil painting, playing cribbage, and darts. He was a member of Cloverdale Legion #6 where he won a few local championships and scored a few perfect 180 dart games. He also immensely enjoyed visiting, laughing and joking with family and friends, watching movies and watching many other sports, both in the stands and on TV.

He was thrilled and honored in 2003 to represent Canada as a member of Canada's BC's men's curling team who won the opportunity to participate in the Pan Pacific curling championship in Japan, where the team won gold. He played second with Skip: Brian Gessner, Third: Tom Lutz, Lead: Jim Graham, and Coach: Brad Burton.

Over the years he enjoyed the camaraderie of a group of 6-8 "Sask bros" who golfed, curled, and got together for regular breakfast meetings to discuss sports, and as Lawrence said, "conspire to solve world problems".

Lawrence never married, and now follows his parents and his younger sister who predeceased him, and leaves to mourn two brothers and a sister, from Saskatchewan, numerous cousins, nieces and nephews from Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C., the Yukon, and Australia, five aunts in BC, Alberta and Australia, and two uncles in Saskatchewan and BC.

His quick smile, laugh, wit, sense of humor, commitment, loyalty will be missed by all who knew him.

Always Remembered

In lieu of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice.