Laurence J. Casale

Laurence J, “Larry” Casale, beloved husband of Sally Farnsworth Casale for 28 years, died peacefully at his home on Nov. 11 after a long illness. Larry was born on May 2, 1937 in Quincy, MA. He was a graduate of Archbishop Williams High School and Boston College, and was in the United States Army Reserve for three years during the Korean War.

Larry was an entrepreneur whose two areas of interest were restaurants and real estate. Right after college, he owned and operated a bar, On the Rocks, on the Mashpee Rotary. His parents, who later bought a house in Pocasset, first brought him to the Cape at the age of four, along with his brother Paul Casale, now of Duxbury. (Paul and his wife, Clare, have three children.) With his first wife Gloria McLean, he owned and operated in Barnstable the Lamb and Lion Inn, as well as an antiques shop. Later he and Gloria, with a bit of help from Gloria’s three teen-age sons, owned and operated the Inn at Duck Creek in Wellfleet. Gloria died in 1980, and Larry is survived by two devoted step-sons, John McLean of Dover, NH, and his wife Elaine, and Steve McLean of Sorrento, ME, and his wife Barbara, as well as five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Before moving permanently to the Cape, and marrying Gloria, Larry was with Walter Hall Real Estate Co. in Duxbury and was later a principal in Town and Country Real Estate Development also in Duxbury. With Town and Country he built many single family dwellings along the South Shore. After selling the Inn at Duck Creek, he returned to his interest in real estate and was a broker and builder under the name “Snug Harbor”. He built over 100 Cape-style homes in Chatham. He was respected for his integrity and the fine quality of the homes he built.

Larry and Sally were married in 1982 and built a beautiful home on Town Cove in Eastham. When he finally gave up real estate in the early 1990’s, he and Sally ran a B&B, where the guests, many returning year after year, were served sumptuous breakfasts prepared by Larry. Diabetes robbed him of his vision in the last few years of his life but that didn’t diminish his zest for living, and especially food. With help from the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, his kitchen was equipped so that he kept right on cooking; and with books on tape from the Perkins School for the Blind, he remained an omnivorous reader, enjoying books on history and politics as well as fiction. Friends knew him as an astute literary critic. Donations in Larry’s memory may be made to the Perkins School for the Blind.

He is survived by four beloved Farnsworth step-children: Holly Hanlon of Brewster, Calvin B. Farnsworth II of Hyannis, Peter Farnsworth of Key West, and Ann Duffy of Seattle, and also six grandchildren, and one great grandchild. A funeral service will be held at 1:30 PM, Sat., Nov. 20, at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Orleans.