Clark County OhArchives Obituaries.....Thomas, Wallace  Senteny January 15, 1955
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The Springfield News, Sunday, January 16, 1955
Wallace Thomas, Ex-Springfielder, Dies in Maryland

    Wallace S. Thomas, 61, former Springfield city commissioner and head of Red 
Cross fund drives here in the 1930’s, died suddenly Saturday afternoon at his 
home in Bethesda, Md.
    Born in Springfield, Sept. 7, 1893, the son of William S. and Fannie 
Sentney Thomas, Mr. Thomas had resided in this city until 1939 when he went to 
Washington, D.C., to accept a position in the U.S. Bureau of Foreign Trade.  
Later, he went to work in the Bureau of Economics on World Trade.  At the time 
of his death, he was with the Department of Commerce, for which he went on many 
missions to foreign countries.
    Sometime after his return from World War I, in which he served as a 
lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps, he was elected to the Springfield City 
Commission, a body on which his father had previously sat at the age of 21 
years.
    Besides being active in Red Cross work, Mr. Thomas was on of the organizers 
of the Little Theater group in Springfield.  He was a member of the Kiwanis 
club, Covenant Presbyterian Church and the American Legion.  He also was 
president and treasurer of the Thomas Manufacturing Co. here.
    Survivors are his widow, Leona Davis Thomas, who came to Springfield from 
Mississippi as a Red Cross nurse and married Mr. Thomas here; his mother, Mrs. 
Fannie Thomas of Springfield, and a sister, Mrs. Burton Carr of Richmond, Ind.
    Mr. Thomas’ body is expected to arrive in Springfield Tuesday morning and 
will be taken to the Richards Memorial Home.  Time of services will be 
announced later, with burial on the Thomas lot in Ferncliff Cemetery.


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