At the time of Smith's death, the fourteen-year-old Lennon was visiting members of the Stanley family in Sango Bay, Durness, Scotland, and was not informed until he returned home. Lennon's first reaction was to laugh hysterically, but then to privately grieve and cry. He would do the same after hearing about the death of his mother three years later, and the death of Stuart Sutcliffe (The Beatles' first bass player), which, with Smith's death, were all major factors in Lennon's early life. In the same year as Smith’s death, the McCartney family moved to 20 Forthlin Road, just three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) from "Mendips". Lennon would later meet Paul McCartney for the first time at St. Peter's Church, where Smith was buried.