Lessie Bell Wallace

1919-2008

When I was 5½ years old my mother died. It was in the winter and it was very cold. The following spring, when the dogwoods were in full bloom, my father took me and one of my sisters in the woods, where we broke branches from dogwood trees. We then took the branches to my mother’s grave and covered her grave with them. My other sister, Donnis, was just a few months old and she did not go with us. My father explained to us that God had made a special home for our mother and that if were good, some day we’d go there too and be with her. I am there with her now, just as my father explained to me and as the Bible tells me in John 14:2-3. “In my Father’s house are many mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

Lessie Bell Wroten Wallace, 88, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at her home in Zachary, La. She was born Oct. 29, 1919, in Amite County, Mississippi. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas J. Wallace; her parents, Virgil and Donnis Jones Wroten and her stepmother, Gillie Etheridge Wroten; a son, Ronald Lane Wallace and a sister, Myrtis Wroten Fordiana.

She is survived by her daughters, Jerry Ann Wallace Carraway and Kay Wallace Mashayekhi and husband George; a son, Thomas Wayne Wallace and wife Brenda; a sister, Donnis Wroten Westbrook; seven grandchildren, Robin Baird and husband Kent, Terri Norris and husband Mark, Sheila Mashayekhi, Nicholas Carraway and wife Ashley, Thomas Hank Wallace and wife Courtney, Robert Saji, and Chris Wroten and wife Tasha; and six great-grandchildren.

The family wishes to extend a special thank you to the staff of St. Joseph Hospice of Baton Rouge for their care and support; the ladies group of First Baptist Church of Zachary for their faithful visits, and to her personal caregivers for their many hours of service.

Visitation is today at Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home in McComb from 5 to 8 p.m. and continues Wednesday at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Smithdale from 10 a.m. until services at 11 a.m., with Dr. Reggie Bridges and the Rev. Joey Barnard officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Memorials may be sent to St. Joseph Hospice of Baton Rouge, 5211 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809.

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