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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Leroy George Wallace
Leroy George
Wallace
Aug 26, 1948 — Apr 23, 2017
Gallatin
Leroy George Wallace's Obituary
LeRoy Wallace, 68, Gallatin, Mo., formerly of Hamilton, Mo., and Rock Island, Illinois, passed away on April 23, 2017, at North Care Hospice, North Kansas City, Mo.
Roy was born on August 26, 1948, in Moline, Illinois, to Ivan and Darlene (Potter) Wallace. He graduated from the Rock Island High School in 1966. He honorably served his country in the Army during the Vietnam War. Roy was a UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter pilot during his tour in Vietnam.
Roy had been a welder and worked with his Uncle Vernon Wallace at United Welding for 17 years in Trenton, Mo., before working and retiring in 2012 from I & M Machine Company in St. Joseph, Mo, as a machinist.
He was a member of the Jesus House of Prayer Church in Breckenridge, Mo., and a member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Association.
He was preceded in death by his mother and an infant child-Attie.
On August 28, 1971, he married Velma Davis in Moline, Illinois. She survives of the home.
Additional survivors: Father-Ivan Wallace, Rock Island, Ill.; Children-Carrie McCarthy (Eric), Kansas City, Mo.; Corey Wallace (Jackie), Hamilton; Mindy Baker (Marcus), Owosso, Michigan; Casey Wallace (Kristen), Ozark, Mo.; Matthew Wallace (Serena), Plano, Tx.; LeAnne Sweet (James), Cameron, Mo.; and Lyndi Wallace, Astoria, New York; Siblings-John Wallace (Jan), Silvis, Ill.; Linda Vondergathen (Dave), Fuquay-Varina, NC.; and Karl Wallace (Roxie), Rock Island, Ill.; 9 grandchildren-Taylor Butterworth (Cameron), Dannee, Kinsey, Chloe, Elijah, Kennedy, and Carter Wallace, Dixie Sweet, and Logan McCarthy; 1 great-grandchild-Audree Butterworth; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Funeral Service: 11 a.m., Saturday, April 29, at the Salem Lutheran Church, Moline, Il.
Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, April 28, at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island, IL 61201.
Interment: The Preemption Cemetery.
Memorials: The Alzheimer's Association
Arrangements: Bram Funeral Home, Hamilton, Mo., and Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, Rock Island, Il.
Roy was born on August 26, 1948, in Moline, Illinois, to Ivan and Darlene (Potter) Wallace. He graduated from the Rock Island High School in 1966. He honorably served his country in the Army during the Vietnam War. Roy was a UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter pilot during his tour in Vietnam.
Roy had been a welder and worked with his Uncle Vernon Wallace at United Welding for 17 years in Trenton, Mo., before working and retiring in 2012 from I & M Machine Company in St. Joseph, Mo, as a machinist.
He was a member of the Jesus House of Prayer Church in Breckenridge, Mo., and a member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Association.
He was preceded in death by his mother and an infant child-Attie.
On August 28, 1971, he married Velma Davis in Moline, Illinois. She survives of the home.
Additional survivors: Father-Ivan Wallace, Rock Island, Ill.; Children-Carrie McCarthy (Eric), Kansas City, Mo.; Corey Wallace (Jackie), Hamilton; Mindy Baker (Marcus), Owosso, Michigan; Casey Wallace (Kristen), Ozark, Mo.; Matthew Wallace (Serena), Plano, Tx.; LeAnne Sweet (James), Cameron, Mo.; and Lyndi Wallace, Astoria, New York; Siblings-John Wallace (Jan), Silvis, Ill.; Linda Vondergathen (Dave), Fuquay-Varina, NC.; and Karl Wallace (Roxie), Rock Island, Ill.; 9 grandchildren-Taylor Butterworth (Cameron), Dannee, Kinsey, Chloe, Elijah, Kennedy, and Carter Wallace, Dixie Sweet, and Logan McCarthy; 1 great-grandchild-Audree Butterworth; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Funeral Service: 11 a.m., Saturday, April 29, at the Salem Lutheran Church, Moline, Il.
Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, April 28, at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island, IL 61201.
Interment: The Preemption Cemetery.
Memorials: The Alzheimer's Association
Arrangements: Bram Funeral Home, Hamilton, Mo., and Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, Rock Island, Il.
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