- Date Of Birth: September 2, 1920
- Date Of Death: July 2, 2018
- State: Texas
Wade F. Wallace, September 2, 1920 – July 2, 2018.
Wade Wallace, 97, of Temple and formerly of Harker Heights passed away peacefully on Monday, July 2, 2018 in Temple.
He was born on September 2, 1920 in Durant, Oklahoma to the late Wade Hampton and Rosie (Roach) Wallace and he had three older sisters. He was raised and educated in Oklahoma, later marrying Marcella Joyce Adams on April 8, 1943 at the Methodist Church in Neodesha, Kansas and she preceded him in death in August of 2004.
Wade served with the 71st Air Service Group in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater from October 1942 to February 1945.
He began his career in the theater business in Oklahoma, moving to Killeen in 1951. Wade managed eleven single, multi-screen and drive-in theaters as well as overseeing the construction of six of those before he retired in 1994.
Mr. Wallace served the Killeen community as President of the USO, President of the Killeen Housing Authority, member of WCID #6, Treasurer of the Killeen Chamber of Commerce for several years, and was a member of the Cowhouse Hotel Board. He was instrumental in establishing St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Killeen and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Citizen’s National Bank of Killeen.
Wade was a Mason in good standing with Grand Lodge of Texas since 1959 and was an endowed member , A&A Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J. USA.
Survivors include two daughters, Candace Fish and her husband Colonel (Ret.) E.G. Fish of Frisco, Texas, and Laurelyn Carlisle and her husband Rex of Salado; two grandchildren, Wade Wallace Fish and his wife Leah of Rockwall, Texas, and Stephen Ratliff Fish and his wife Cheryl of Dallas, Texas. Also surviving are three great grandchildren, Harper Elizabeth Fish, Zachary Quadros Fish, and Zoe Wallace Fish.
