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<\/a>He loved his life on earth and felt like he was the most blessed man ever to be.\u00a0 \u00a0He is survived by his beloved wife of fifty-seven years: Buffy (Merrill); children:\u00a0 \u00a0Dr. Mary Buffington Jenkins (Button), Harry A., IV (Scotty or Poppy), Elizabeth Becker (Liza) and Matthew M. He loved their spouses: Greg, Catherine, Frank and Tessie.\u00a0 \u00a0Also, he LOVED the grandchildren to the highest degree: Sam and Will Jenkins;\u00a0 Harry, James and Mary Charles Wallace;\u00a0 Frank J., Katherine and Wally Becker and young Smith Wallace; and his sister, Lavender.\u00a0 \u00a0He loved his delightful sister, Dolly (Hartman); and his brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, as well as multiple nieces, nephews and godchildren.<\/p>\nActually, he cared for people of all sizes, shapes, ages and walks of life.\u00a0 \u00a0He loved his employment: 31 years as a stock broker and an additional 22 years as an insurance agent with a little real estate, and teaching on the side.\u00a0 \u00a0His hobbies were many, but mostly boating and gardening, baseball, reading, watching his grandchildren play sports and all things Scottish:\u00a0 games, bagpipes and Scotch whiskey.<\/p>\n
He attended Charleston High School, Kentucky Military Institute, Kimball Union Academy, Babson College and the University of Virginia School of Business.\u00a0 \u00a0He was a long-time member of Christ Church United Methodist and the Charleston Boat Club and he was a Paul Harris Fellow in the Rotary Club.\u00a0 \u00a0Additionally, he was a council member of the Clan Wallace Society, joining in 1967 and served as the second president on the society board of directors.<\/p>\n
He served in the Army Reserves, on the Kanawha County Board of Education,\u00a0 the Spring Hill Cemetery Board, the WV Wesleyan College Board of Trustees, and as President of the Clan Wallace Society International.\u00a0 \u00a0He liked the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Army and many other local organizations,\u00a0 including the Children’s Home Society and the Charleston Light Opera Guild.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers,\u00a0 give your wait staff a big tip,\u00a0 because “they are working their way through college.”<\/p>\n
A graveside service was held with immediate family on March 18 and a Celebration of Life will be planned when all of WCF (Wally’s Circle of Friends) can get together without social distancing.\u00a0 Condolences may be sent to the family at www.barlowbonsall.com<\/p>\n
Published in Charleston Gazette-Mail on Mar. 22, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
S\/Sgt HARRY A. WALLACE III, aka G or Wally, went on a Great Adventure on March 15, 2020.\u00a0 \u00a0He was really excited about being reunited with his mother,\u00a0 Libbo (Elisabeth Mathews);\u00a0 father, Harry Jr.;\u00a0 brother, William B. Wallace; and his wonderful grandparents. He loved his life on earth and felt like he was the most … Continue reading Harry A Wallace III<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers-of-the-forest","tag-flowers-of-the-forest","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}