Wallace, a 32nd Degree Mason and veteran of World War I, died Sunday in a Baton Rouge hospital after a long illness.
He was a member of the Caddo Lodge No. 179, F. & A. M., the Shreveport Consistory, and Karubah Shrine.
Wallace went to the capital city at the call of the late Huey P. Long. He was named secretary of the Louisiana Tax Commission.
He served every governor including Gov. Jimmie H. Davis during both of Davis' terms as a drafter of key legislation.
Wallace last served as the governor's legal counsel for the late Earl K. Long, 1948-1952, and later moved into the office of Secretary of State Wade O. Martin as an attorney. He never retired.
Gov. Davis, in a final tribute, said Wallace had one of Louisiana's most penetrating legal minds.
Services were held at Welsh Funeral Home, Baton Rouge. State officials, members of the East Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association, and officers and directors of the Fidelity National Bank were honorary pallbearers.
Burial was in Roselawn Memorial Park, Baton Rouge, with Masonic rites at the graveside.
He leaves his wife, the former Eleanor Murphy of Baton Rouge; a son, Thompson Wallace of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. W. Leroy Ward, Jr., and Mrs. Thomas W. Jones, Baton Rouge; and four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Farber, Baton Rouge, Mrs. Bertha Kidd, Mrs. Belle Mosley, and Mrs. Net Smith, all of Winnfield.
Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Winnfield, LA), January 3, 1963
Wallace, a 32nd Degree Mason and veteran of World War I, died Sunday in a Baton Rouge hospital after a long illness.
He was a member of the Caddo Lodge No. 179, F. & A. M., the Shreveport Consistory, and Karubah Shrine.
Wallace went to the capital city at the call of the late Huey P. Long. He was named secretary of the Louisiana Tax Commission.
He served every governor including Gov. Jimmie H. Davis during both of Davis' terms as a drafter of key legislation.
Wallace last served as the governor's legal counsel for the late Earl K. Long, 1948-1952, and later moved into the office of Secretary of State Wade O. Martin as an attorney. He never retired.
Gov. Davis, in a final tribute, said Wallace had one of Louisiana's most penetrating legal minds.
Services were held at Welsh Funeral Home, Baton Rouge. State officials, members of the East Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association, and officers and directors of the Fidelity National Bank were honorary pallbearers.
Burial was in Roselawn Memorial Park, Baton Rouge, with Masonic rites at the graveside.
He leaves his wife, the former Eleanor Murphy of Baton Rouge; a son, Thompson Wallace of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. W. Leroy Ward, Jr., and Mrs. Thomas W. Jones, Baton Rouge; and four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Farber, Baton Rouge, Mrs. Bertha Kidd, Mrs. Belle Mosley, and Mrs. Net Smith, all of Winnfield.
Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Winnfield, LA), January 3, 1963
Family Members
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Martha Algerine Wallace
1873–1877
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Ophelia Eleanor Wallace Moss
1875–1960
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Mary Belle Wallace Mosley
1877–1963
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William Mayfield Wallace
1879–1934
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James Thompson Wallace Jr
1881–1900
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Bertha Eunice Wallace Kidd
1883–1973
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Olive Wallace Baker
1885–1959
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Oliver Kelly Wallace
1885–1913
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Jeanette "Nettie" Wallace Smith
1886–1967
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Ida Louise Wallace Moore
1892–1959
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Ethel Wallace Farber
1895–1963
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