Obit: Wallace, Clarence E. (1895 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wallace, Menge, Machel, Higgins, Wischuelke, Riedel

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 7, 1965

Wallace, Clarence E. (19 January 1895 - 28 September 1965)

Funeral services were held in Minneapolis, Minn., last Friday for Clarence E. Wallace, 70, a native of Clark County and brother of Henry Wallace of Neillsville. Graveside services were held in Whiting, near Stevens Point, Saturday.

Mr. Wallace died September 28 of a heart attack. He had suffered fractures of a leg and heel, and three vertebrae September 12 when he fell from a scaffold while painting the second floor of a house.

Born January 19, 1895, in the Town of Washburn, Mr. Wallace attended school at Cannonville.  He later move to Stevens Point, and lived for many years in nearby McDill, later moving to Minneapolis.

Surviving besides his brother, Henry, are three sons, Donald, Harland and Clifford; a daughter, Mrs. June Menge; eight grandchildren; three other brothers, Dan, Darwin and Laurence; and two sisters, Pearl Machel and Lilly Higgins.  

Funeral services were held in a Minneapolis funeral home before the body was taken to Whiting for burial in McDill Cemetery.

Attending the graveside rites were Mrs. Wilbert Wischuelke, a niece, and Mrs. Louis Riedel of Granton.  Henry Wallace was unable to attend either service because of his health.