Chester M. Wallace
CALLISON, MACUMBER, WALLACE, TRAUTWEIN
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 6/1/2006 at 22:52:07
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
May 31, 2006CHESTER WALLACE, Mount Vernon
Chester M. “Chet” Wallace, 92, of Mount Vernon died May 25, 2006, at Hallmark Care and Rehabilitation in Mount Vernon following a brief illness.
Services were held Monday, May 29, at Morgan Funeral and Cremation Choices, Mount Vernon Chapel. Graveside services were held Tuesday, May 30, at Clark Cemetery in rural Macksburg.
Chet Wallace was born March 19, 1914, to L. Guy and Hazel S. (Trautwein) Wallace of Macksburg and was a graduate of Winterset High School and Simpson College. On May 2, 1942, he married Mary Elizabeth Callison. Following her death in 1976, he later married Helen Leander Macumber on Nov. 9, 1980. In 1936, Chet began a long teaching and coaching career at Jewell, Troy Mills, Glidden, Corydon, Lorimor, Mount Vernon and Lisbon. Following his retirement from education, he continued to build homes in Mount Vernon with his son, Jim.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary, and a brother, Vic.
He is survived by his wife, Helen, of Mount Vernon; two sons, Victor Wallace of Jackson, Tenn., and Jim Wallace of Mount Vernon; one daughter, Gayle Ann Wallace of Mount Vernon; one stepson, Philip Macumber of Winterset; a brother, Russell Wallace of California; and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be directed to the Lisbon-Mount Vernon Volunteer Ambulance Fund, P.O. Box 155, Mount Vernon, IA 52314.
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