Obit: Wallace, Darwin (1888 - 1971)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Wallace, Ziemendorf, Wilkins, Machel, Higgins, Hanson

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 8/12/1971

Wallace, Darwin (29 December 1888 - 2 August 1971)

Funeral services for Darwin Wallace, 82, of Whiting, who died at his home August 2, were held August 4 at 2 p.m. from the Shuda Funeral Chapel in Stevens Point. The Rev. Melvin Hanson of the Assembly of God Church officiated and burial was made in the McDill Cemetery. Mr. Wallace was a former resident of the Granton and Neillsville areas, and a brother of the late Henry Wallace of Neillsville.

Darwin Wallace, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wallace, was born December 29, 1888, at Richland Center. He came to Granton with his family as a child and attended school there. In 1911, he moved with his father to McDill, where he established a cement block business, known as D. D. Wallace, contractor.

His marriage to the former Mamie Ziemendorf took place March 21, 1912, at the United Church of Christ in Stevens Point. The Wallaces moved to Neillsville in 1936 and Mr. Wallace was in the sand and gravel business here for two years; they they moved back to Stevens Point. During World War II he was a construction foreman for the government, at Baraboo. He had worked in construction at Stevens Point since that time.

Survivors, in addition to his wife, include a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Martha) Wilkins of Oshkosh; two sons, Charles Wallace of Whiting and Robert Wallace, at home; eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. He is further survived by two brothers, Dan Wallace of Franklin, Ind., and Lawrence Wallace of the Town of Linwood; and by two sisters, Mrs. William (Pearl) Machel and Mrs. Ernest (Lillie) Higgins, both of Phoenix, Ariz.
            

 

 


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