Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Face, William Wallace August 12, 1988
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William Wallace Face was the son of Edward Gill Face (1886-1949) and Agnes 
Williamson Wallace (1891-1949).
He was employed as a bookkeeper and clerk with a number of Norfolk companies.
He spent nine years with the Virginian Railway Company (1951-1960), serving as 
Chief File Clerk, Trace Clerk, Quotation Clerk, Tariff Complier and Executive 
Divisions Clerk. When the Virginian merged with the Norfolk and Western, Wallace 
Face chose to remain in Norfolk rather than to move to the N&W headquarters in 
Roanoke, Virginia.
Wallace Face later worked with the College of William and Mary (Norfolk 
Division), F.S. Royster Guano Company and MediCenters of America, Inc.
He graduated from Maury High School in 1942 and attended the Norfolk division of 
the College of William and Mary in 1946-48 and 1949-50. He also completed 
courses with the American Institute of Banking (Norfolk) and Kee's IBM Data 
Processing (Norfolk).
Wallace Face served in the Army from February 10, 1943 to November 3, 1945. He 
served in the European Theater of Operations from December 1943 to October 1945. 
He was assistant to the American Red Cross Field Director, 474 Infantry 
Regiment.
He was an active and devoted organist in Norfolk Episcopal Churches. He served 
as the organist and choirmaster at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (1968-1970) and 
held the same position at the Church of the Ascension (1950-55 and 1960-67). He 
was the assistant organist at St. Andrew's from 1955 to 1960. He served as the 
treasurer of the American Guild of Organists, Norfolk Chapter.
Wallace Face was devoted to his family and took responsibility for numerous 
widowed relatives in their later years.
He was predeceased by his two brothers, Dr. Edward Gill Face, Jr. (1916-1951) 
and George Staylor Face, II (1920-1922).
Wallace Face died of congestive heart failure in his home in the Ghent section 
of his beloved Norfolk.

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