text: Since 1950 Lacy was detained by the newly established Communist regime and he finally died of a heart ailment at Foochow Union Hospital (福州協和醫院) on December 11, 1951, prior to which he had been ill for months but had been unable to obtain a permission to leave this country.Lacy, George Carleton & Lacy, Walter Nind (1951): The Story of the Foochow Foreign Cemeteries</ref> He was buried in Foochow Mission Cemetery, with only his faithful cook to attend his funeral.