Larry George Boyd (July 30, 1941 — Nov 29, 2018)

Larry passed away peacefully in his 78th year at Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital on November 29th, 2018. Larry Boyd called Kahshe Lake home. He spent his childhood living on South Kahshe Lake Road. His first job as a young lad was working at the Kahshe Lake Hotel as a chore boy for his uncle Art Sopher. Later, he became a licensed fishing guide for the hotel. When the Kahshe Lake Hotel burned, Larry worked with his uncle as a carpenter in the rebuilding of the Kahshe Lake Resort.

In the fall of 1965, Larry married, and their first apartment was unit number one at the resort. The following spring he and his wife, Nancy, built a honeymoon cottage where they spent six months a year. The cottage was located in what they named Tranquility Bay since they were the only ones living there. The property from the bay and all of the property across from Hens and Chicks and up to the beginning of Deep Bay was owned by Larry’s grandfather. This was the first of many cottages Larry and Nancy built and owned on the lake. Meanwhile, Larry’s father, Cliff, was building an extension of South Kahshe Lake Road for Bill and Hilda Mylks, and Larry was assisting him.

In the early '70s, Larry began building branches to properties along the shores of Grants Bay. He and Nancy owned several lots at the end of Grants Bay, and Larry knew the road would be a great asset, and that has proven to be true. From the '70s to the '90s, Larry worked as a blasting foreman for Majestic Wiley Pipelines. During breaks in the Pipeline work schedule, Larry, Nancy, and their children Steve, Stephanie, and Glen would come back to their beloved Kahshe Lake.

Larry brought the first work barge to Kahshe Lake. It made lots of jobs much easier for many — septic beds, building materials, landscaping materials, and more could move with ease. Larry sold the Barge business to John Klinck in the late '80s but stayed on to work with John in the building of Larroger Road. Larry loved the lake. He waterskied and snowmobiled on it. He fished and swam in it. Most of all, he gave back to it so that others would love it as he did.

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