Obit of Wallace, J E - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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::Ft Bayard Natioal Cemetery--Ft Bayard NM 

Silver City Press April 7, 2002

WALLACE: J E Wallace, 76, of Silver City passed away Friday, March 
22, in Gila Regional Medical Center. The family will receive friends 
from 4-7 p.m. today at Bright Funeral Home. Graveside funeral 
services with full military honors by American Legion Post No. 18 and 
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3347 will begin at 10 a.m. 
Wednesday at Fort Bayard National Cemetery, with Pastor Phil Pittman 
and Mr. Stanley Chitwood officiating. Mr. Wallace was born May 13, 
1925, in Wright City, Okla. He was the son of Ed Wallace and Mattie 
Marie Casey Wallace. He married Helen Cobb on Nov. 21, 1944, in 
Shawnee, Okla. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Helen; two 
daughters, Patricia Hudson and her husband, Mike, and Wanda Taylor 
and her husband, George, all of Silver City; four grandchildren, 
Terrie Cox and her husband, Jason, of Hurley, Carrie Jo Smith and her 
husband, Jeff, of Las Cruces, Suzanne Taylor of Las Cruces and Marvin 
Lee Taylor of Silver City; six great-granddaughters; two sisters, 
Lottie Bergeron of Athal, Mass., and Imogene Fisher and her husband, 
Bill, of Long Meadow, Mass.; and numerous other rela-tives. He was 
preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, R L Wallace and B J 
Wallace; one grandson, Daniel Lee Fincher; and one brother-in-law, 
Arnold Berg-eron. Mr. Wallace served in the U.S. Navy during World 
War II. He retired as a loco-motive engineer from Phelps Dodge. 

Pall-bearers for Mr. Wallace will be Marvin Taylor, Jeff Smith, Mike 
Hudson, Jason Cox, George Taylor and Mike Hilton. Bright Funeral Home 
is in charge of arrangements. 
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