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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