WALLACE, Lilian TRUESDALE, died 2011

WALLACE, TRUESDALE, DICKINSON, TAVANO, PHILIPPI, MARVELL, CARNEY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/20/2011 at 14:46:37

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Page 8

Lilian TRUESDALE WALLACE

Lilian TRUESDALE WALLACE of Westport, Massachusetts, died peacefully on Friday morning, June 9, 2011 (sic - Friday was the 10th), in Florence, Arizona, at the age of 95. Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lilian was the daughter of the late Dr. Philemon E. TRUESDALE -- founder of Truesdale Hospital and Truesdale Clinic -- and the late Minna DICKINSON TRUESDALE.

Lilian attended The Lincoln School in Providence, Rhode Island and traveled extensively throughout Europe. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, she began a successful acting career in New York, appearing in a number of Off-Broadway shows.

In 1939 she married the late William D. WALLACE, a prominent dentist in Beverly Hills, California, whose patients included Clark Gable and Errol Flynn. She became an important member of charitable organizations, and helped produce and perform in shows for underprivileged children. She was active throughout her life and frequently organized and participated in family skiing and sailing outings.

Initiated in the Transcendental Meditation program by Mahesh Yogi in 1965, she later studied library science at Harvard, and became the first librarian of Maharishi International University. In 1972 she was made a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and became a Governor of Age of Enlightenment at the Taste of Utopia course in 1983. In the last years of her life she lived in Keith and Samantha's home on the MUM campus, where she was visited by much of the meditating community and was lovingly cared for, initially by Samantha and Lila, and then for three years by Bill and Velma WALLACE, with whom she moved to Florence, Arizona last fall.

She is survived by her three sons, Bill WALLACE and his wife Velma, of Florence, Arizona, Peter WALLACE, of Fairfield, Iowa, Keith WALLACE and his wife Samantha of Fairfield, Iowa. Her beloved grandchildren are Sinclair and Laura WALLACE; Philip WALLACE, Ananda WALLACE TAVANO, and Charles WALLACE; Ted, Gareth, and Lila WALLACE, with great-grandchildren, Rachel and Gregory WALLACE; Kyra WALLACE; Roxie and Desmond WALLACE; Max, Alex, and Sam TAVANO; Julia and Kyran WALLACE, and Tiana WALLACE; along with many nieces and nephews. Lilian was the last surviving sibling of Elizabeth PHILIPPI, Elinor MARVELL, Robert TRUESDALE, Philemon E. TRUESDALE, Mary CARNEY, and John TRUESDALE.

A Memorial Service will be held Tuesday, June 21, 2011, at 8:00 pm in Dalby Hall at the Argiro Center on the MUM campus, with talks from her sons Peter and Keith WALLACE and her grandchildren Ted and Lila WALLACE. The family is honored to have Dr. Bevan Morris, Dr. Craig Pearson, Dr. Josephine Fauerso, and other members of the MUM and Fairfield community speak at this service.

Memorial contributions may be sent to the MUM Endowment Fund.

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