Coleman Merrill Wallace, 38, died Monday at his home after a long illness.
Born in Portland the son of Phillip and Aldine Margaret Verrill Wallace, he was a 1974 graduate of Gray-New Gloucester High School and graduated in 1978 from the University of Minnesota at St. Paul, where he had a double major in history and psychology.
Mr. Wallace worked in St. Paul doing social work with the elderly. He worked for several years at Citibank as an assistant vice president in relationship and product development in New York City. Most recently, he worked for Meyers Investment Services in Maine before leaving because of illness.
In 1988 Mr. Wallace served as a juror in the trial of Robert Chambers Jr. for the so-called ''preppie murder'' of Jennifer Levin, 18, in New York City, and he was sought after for television interviews at the conclusions. (After the jury had deliberated for nine days and apparently deadlocked, Chambers startled the courtroom by pleading guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death.)
Mr. Wallace appeared on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' and ''A Current Affair,'' and was quoted in two books, ''The Preppie Murders'' and ''Wasted.''
He was an avid reader of historical novels, enjoyed classical music and gardening and interior design, loved his dogs and had a zest for life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers; Nate, Detes and Winston, all of Gray; two sisters, Jolene Wallace Elm of Solon Springs, Wis., and Gloria Wallace Kriete of Milton Mills, N.H.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at his residence on Shady Ridge Road in Gray. Arrangements are by Wilson Funeral Home, Gray.
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Portland Press Herald (ME) - Wednesday, August 24, 1994
Born in Portland the son of Phillip and Aldine Margaret Verrill Wallace, he was a 1974 graduate of Gray-New Gloucester High School and graduated in 1978 from the University of Minnesota at St. Paul, where he had a double major in history and psychology.
Mr. Wallace worked in St. Paul doing social work with the elderly. He worked for several years at Citibank as an assistant vice president in relationship and product development in New York City. Most recently, he worked for Meyers Investment Services in Maine before leaving because of illness.
In 1988 Mr. Wallace served as a juror in the trial of Robert Chambers Jr. for the so-called ''preppie murder'' of Jennifer Levin, 18, in New York City, and he was sought after for television interviews at the conclusions. (After the jury had deliberated for nine days and apparently deadlocked, Chambers startled the courtroom by pleading guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death.)
Mr. Wallace appeared on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' and ''A Current Affair,'' and was quoted in two books, ''The Preppie Murders'' and ''Wasted.''
He was an avid reader of historical novels, enjoyed classical music and gardening and interior design, loved his dogs and had a zest for life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers; Nate, Detes and Winston, all of Gray; two sisters, Jolene Wallace Elm of Solon Springs, Wis., and Gloria Wallace Kriete of Milton Mills, N.H.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at his residence on Shady Ridge Road in Gray. Arrangements are by Wilson Funeral Home, Gray.
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Portland Press Herald (ME) - Wednesday, August 24, 1994
Coleman Merrill Wallace, 38, died Monday at his home after a long illness.
Born in Portland the son of Phillip and Aldine Margaret Verrill Wallace, he was a 1974 graduate of Gray-New Gloucester High School and graduated in 1978 from the University of Minnesota at St. Paul, where he had a double major in history and psychology.
Mr. Wallace worked in St. Paul doing social work with the elderly. He worked for several years at Citibank as an assistant vice president in relationship and product development in New York City. Most recently, he worked for Meyers Investment Services in Maine before leaving because of illness.
In 1988 Mr. Wallace served as a juror in the trial of Robert Chambers Jr. for the so-called ''preppie murder'' of Jennifer Levin, 18, in New York City, and he was sought after for television interviews at the conclusions. (After the jury had deliberated for nine days and apparently deadlocked, Chambers startled the courtroom by pleading guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death.)
Mr. Wallace appeared on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' and ''A Current Affair,'' and was quoted in two books, ''The Preppie Murders'' and ''Wasted.''
He was an avid reader of historical novels, enjoyed classical music and gardening and interior design, loved his dogs and had a zest for life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers; Nate, Detes and Winston, all of Gray; two sisters, Jolene Wallace Elm of Solon Springs, Wis., and Gloria Wallace Kriete of Milton Mills, N.H.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at his residence on Shady Ridge Road in Gray. Arrangements are by Wilson Funeral Home, Gray.
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Portland Press Herald (ME) - Wednesday, August 24, 1994
Born in Portland the son of Phillip and Aldine Margaret Verrill Wallace, he was a 1974 graduate of Gray-New Gloucester High School and graduated in 1978 from the University of Minnesota at St. Paul, where he had a double major in history and psychology.
Mr. Wallace worked in St. Paul doing social work with the elderly. He worked for several years at Citibank as an assistant vice president in relationship and product development in New York City. Most recently, he worked for Meyers Investment Services in Maine before leaving because of illness.
In 1988 Mr. Wallace served as a juror in the trial of Robert Chambers Jr. for the so-called ''preppie murder'' of Jennifer Levin, 18, in New York City, and he was sought after for television interviews at the conclusions. (After the jury had deliberated for nine days and apparently deadlocked, Chambers startled the courtroom by pleading guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death.)
Mr. Wallace appeared on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' and ''A Current Affair,'' and was quoted in two books, ''The Preppie Murders'' and ''Wasted.''
He was an avid reader of historical novels, enjoyed classical music and gardening and interior design, loved his dogs and had a zest for life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers; Nate, Detes and Winston, all of Gray; two sisters, Jolene Wallace Elm of Solon Springs, Wis., and Gloria Wallace Kriete of Milton Mills, N.H.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at his residence on Shady Ridge Road in Gray. Arrangements are by Wilson Funeral Home, Gray.
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Portland Press Herald (ME) - Wednesday, August 24, 1994
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