Services for Bessie Wiley Wallace, of Lufkin, will be held November 15, 2019 in the Gipson Funeral Home Chapel, Lufkin. Interment will follow at the Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Lufkin.
Bessie was born in Wilson, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Ethel Janet “Pinkie” Ledbetter and Caleb Lester Wiley. She passed away in a local hospice facility. She was a faithful member of Life Point Church (formerly Calvery Baptist Church), the Rebekah Sunday School Class and enjoyed the activities of the Golden Heirs Senior Adult Group. In earlier years, she also enjoyed the trips made and singing with the XYZ Senior Adult Choir.
Bessie graduated from Munford High School, Munford, Tennessee in the Class of 1942. After moving to Angelina County that same year, she attended Satterwhite Commercial College and worked at Temple Mfg. Co. (The Box Factory) in Diboll. Later she was employed by Southland Paper Mill and completed 15 years full time service but continued to work part time for many years when extra help was needed in any office in the Mill. Lifetime friends were made during these years.
Survivors are her sons, Glenn Douglas Wallace and Carl Eugene Wallace, Jr. and wife Cathy; granddaughters and spouses, Mary and Miguel Zamora, Rose and Tim Scheurer, and Katherine and Peter Tulloch; grandson, Morgan Wallace and wife Alicyn; several great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Sandra Wallace; nieces, Betty Bush and Dixie Welch, eight other nieces, five nephews and their families.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 39 ½ years, Carl E. (Gene) Wallace; brothers Roy, Clay, Richard, Gilbert and Alex Wiley and two sisters, Martha Janet Wiley and Lola Bourland Carter.
Edited - full obit published in Lufkin Daily News, Nov 14, 2019.
Bessie was born in Wilson, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Ethel Janet “Pinkie” Ledbetter and Caleb Lester Wiley. She passed away in a local hospice facility. She was a faithful member of Life Point Church (formerly Calvery Baptist Church), the Rebekah Sunday School Class and enjoyed the activities of the Golden Heirs Senior Adult Group. In earlier years, she also enjoyed the trips made and singing with the XYZ Senior Adult Choir.
Bessie graduated from Munford High School, Munford, Tennessee in the Class of 1942. After moving to Angelina County that same year, she attended Satterwhite Commercial College and worked at Temple Mfg. Co. (The Box Factory) in Diboll. Later she was employed by Southland Paper Mill and completed 15 years full time service but continued to work part time for many years when extra help was needed in any office in the Mill. Lifetime friends were made during these years.
Survivors are her sons, Glenn Douglas Wallace and Carl Eugene Wallace, Jr. and wife Cathy; granddaughters and spouses, Mary and Miguel Zamora, Rose and Tim Scheurer, and Katherine and Peter Tulloch; grandson, Morgan Wallace and wife Alicyn; several great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Sandra Wallace; nieces, Betty Bush and Dixie Welch, eight other nieces, five nephews and their families.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 39 ½ years, Carl E. (Gene) Wallace; brothers Roy, Clay, Richard, Gilbert and Alex Wiley and two sisters, Martha Janet Wiley and Lola Bourland Carter.
Edited - full obit published in Lufkin Daily News, Nov 14, 2019.
Services for Bessie Wiley Wallace, of Lufkin, will be held November 15, 2019 in the Gipson Funeral Home Chapel, Lufkin. Interment will follow at the Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Lufkin.
Bessie was born in Wilson, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Ethel Janet “Pinkie” Ledbetter and Caleb Lester Wiley. She passed away in a local hospice facility. She was a faithful member of Life Point Church (formerly Calvery Baptist Church), the Rebekah Sunday School Class and enjoyed the activities of the Golden Heirs Senior Adult Group. In earlier years, she also enjoyed the trips made and singing with the XYZ Senior Adult Choir.
Bessie graduated from Munford High School, Munford, Tennessee in the Class of 1942. After moving to Angelina County that same year, she attended Satterwhite Commercial College and worked at Temple Mfg. Co. (The Box Factory) in Diboll. Later she was employed by Southland Paper Mill and completed 15 years full time service but continued to work part time for many years when extra help was needed in any office in the Mill. Lifetime friends were made during these years.
Survivors are her sons, Glenn Douglas Wallace and Carl Eugene Wallace, Jr. and wife Cathy; granddaughters and spouses, Mary and Miguel Zamora, Rose and Tim Scheurer, and Katherine and Peter Tulloch; grandson, Morgan Wallace and wife Alicyn; several great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Sandra Wallace; nieces, Betty Bush and Dixie Welch, eight other nieces, five nephews and their families.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 39 ½ years, Carl E. (Gene) Wallace; brothers Roy, Clay, Richard, Gilbert and Alex Wiley and two sisters, Martha Janet Wiley and Lola Bourland Carter.
Edited - full obit published in Lufkin Daily News, Nov 14, 2019.
Bessie was born in Wilson, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Ethel Janet “Pinkie” Ledbetter and Caleb Lester Wiley. She passed away in a local hospice facility. She was a faithful member of Life Point Church (formerly Calvery Baptist Church), the Rebekah Sunday School Class and enjoyed the activities of the Golden Heirs Senior Adult Group. In earlier years, she also enjoyed the trips made and singing with the XYZ Senior Adult Choir.
Bessie graduated from Munford High School, Munford, Tennessee in the Class of 1942. After moving to Angelina County that same year, she attended Satterwhite Commercial College and worked at Temple Mfg. Co. (The Box Factory) in Diboll. Later she was employed by Southland Paper Mill and completed 15 years full time service but continued to work part time for many years when extra help was needed in any office in the Mill. Lifetime friends were made during these years.
Survivors are her sons, Glenn Douglas Wallace and Carl Eugene Wallace, Jr. and wife Cathy; granddaughters and spouses, Mary and Miguel Zamora, Rose and Tim Scheurer, and Katherine and Peter Tulloch; grandson, Morgan Wallace and wife Alicyn; several great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Sandra Wallace; nieces, Betty Bush and Dixie Welch, eight other nieces, five nephews and their families.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 39 ½ years, Carl E. (Gene) Wallace; brothers Roy, Clay, Richard, Gilbert and Alex Wiley and two sisters, Martha Janet Wiley and Lola Bourland Carter.
Edited - full obit published in Lufkin Daily News, Nov 14, 2019.
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