Obituaries: Eugene Clarence "Happy Jack" Wallace, 1960, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 20, 1960 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Last Rites For Jack Wallace Held Here Oct. 16

Eugene Clarence (Jack) Wallace, 70, native of Winnfield, and resident of Baton
Rouge for many years, died in a Winnfield hospital Saturday, October 15, 1960,
after a long illness.

Funeral services were conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Southern Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. W. R. Gage, Rev. C. C. Martin, and Dr. W. L. Holcomb
officiating.  Burial was in the Winnfield Cemetery under direction of Southern
Funeral Home.

Acting as pallbearers were Richard Heard, Robert Heard, W. L. Willis, C. D.
Moss, J. Donald Russell, and Luther Moore.

Mr. Wallace was the son of the late J. T. and Olive Peters Wallace, pioneer
residents of Winn Parish.  He was a member of El Karubah Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Shreveport, and was employed
by the State Insurance Department at the time of his death.

Mr. Wallace also played professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs and with
the Southern League at one time.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Jack Wallace, Sr., Baton Rouge; one son,
Jack Wallace, Jr., Lake Charles; one stepson, Leo Jarnagin, Ft. Hood, Texas;
four sisters, Mrs. John H. Mosley, Mrs. Earl E. Kidd, and Mrs. Gill Smith, all
of Winnfield, and Mrs. W. J. Farber of Monroe; one brother, George M. Wallace,
Baton Rouge; and one grandchild.