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Richard Hiram "Dick" Wallace

31 Jan 1924 – 23 Sep 2016

Birth	31 Jan 1924
Death	23 Sep 2016
Cemetery	Mount View Baptist Church Cemetery #2 Cleveland , White County , Georgia , USA
Added by	Blanche Wallace on 21 Nov 2020
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182234594

Bio

Richard was a Sargent in the Army and was stationed in Florida, Ohio, Texas, Mississippi, Michigan, and Tennessee. He completed training as a mechanic and gunner on a B-24. Richard married Catherine Booth on May 5, 1968 in Walhalla, Oconee County, South Carolina. They lived in East Point and Cleveland, Georgia. He was a mechanic with Delta Airlines for 39 years where he worked in the maintenance department in Atlanta, Georgia, for almost 40 years. He always said he enjoyed it very much. A few years before he retired, he completed a job that saved Delta $50,000. This got the attention of top management. The completion of the flying machine in 1995 was a dream he had for forty years and in a way Delta helped make that dream a reality. He named it the "Miss Jenni" in honor of his youngest granddaughter. In total, he built one airplane, helped build another one and restored one. His hobbies included working on airplanes, flying and woodworking. For one of his projects he carved a chain with a cage and enclosed ball on the end from one solid piece of wood.

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Family

Parents

• Oscar Kelly "Pa" Wallace 1879–1957
• Ida Susan Rebecca Lewis Wallace 1886–1966

Spouse

• Mary Catherine Wallace 1929–1997

Siblings

• Pearl Leah Wallace McEntyre 1905–2000
• Oscar Lewis Wallace 1906–2003
• Clyde Eugene "Steel Ball" Wallace 1908–1971
• Julius Hal Wallace 1910–1984
• Marion Edward Wallace 1912–1958
• Gladys Florene Wallace Barfield 1914–1988
• Ida Sue Wallace Orr 1917–2004
• Lily Florence "Bit" Wallace Graden 1919–2012
• Bonnie May Wallace 1927–2012

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