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Canton Herald Oct .27, 1949

Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 21 at 2:30 o’clock in the Trenton Methodist Church with the Rev. F. B. Jackson, pastor officiating.  Mr. Wallace passed away Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Plainview of a heart attack.  He was born Jan. 30, 1905 the son of W. E. Wallace and the late Mrs. Allie Wallace.   In 1936 he was married to Miss Louise Nixon of Canton, daughter of Mrs. Irene Nixon and the late W. P. Nixon. He had one sister, Mrs. Edna Wilson of Trenton and one brother Homer Wallace of Sherman. Interment was in Cross Roads cemetery with Masonic services at the grave.

The Edith Chaney Circle met Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the home of Mrs. George Yates with eight members and one visitor present for Bible lesson.  Mrs. J. V. Gray, teacher, gave a wonderful Inspirational lesson “Rejoice Evermore”.  Mrs. Gray advised each one present to read Psalm, 100 often, as an exhortation to rejoice.

Mrs. Sam Beard, president presided at the meeting of the Wednesday Study Club on Oct. 19.   The program on the “Bible” was as follows: Roll call, “My Favorite Psalm and Why”: “History of the Psalms,” Mrs. O. B. King: “Bible Quiz” Mrs. Paul Stanford.  The hostess Mrs. J. W. Terry served a salad plate with Halloween motifs to Mesdames Sam Beard, R. E. Blackwell, Joe Hackney O. B. King, Irby Mills, H. H. Riley, Paul Stanford, J. S. Turner, A. T. Travis and W. E. West.

CORPORAL WANDA L. EASLEY, 24, of Ben Wheeler, Tex., uses the Theodolite, a machine, used to trace the flight of a balloon launched from the hanger roof and thereby determine wind velocity. Corporal Easley is a weather observer at Hamilton AFB, San Rafael, California, after completing a course at the Air Force Weather School at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio recently.

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