Virgie Pauline Wallace

Published 10:16 am Friday, June 12, 2015

Funeral services for Virgie Pauline Wallace are Saturday, June 13, 2015, at 11 a.m. at Wilson Funeral Home with burial in Divide Methodist Protestant Church Cemetery in Monticello. Bro. Bobby Lambert, Bro. Joey Faulk and Bro. Carlos Dawson will officiate the services. Pallbearers are Paul Wallace, Thomas Plunkett, Jerry Smithie, Lane Sistrunk, Brian McGregor and Andy Smithie. Honorary pallbearer is David Smithie. Wilson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation will be at Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello on June 12, 2015, from 5 until 9 p.m. and will continue Saturday, June 13, 2015, from 10 a.m. until the time of service at the funeral home.

Mrs. Wallace, 92, died Wednesday, June 10, 2015, at her residence in the presence of her loving family in Monticello. She was born April 16, 1923, in Lincoln County to Virgil and Mary Williams Givens.

She was a dedicated mother, grandmother and wife, who was known for her great gumbo, large Sunday dinners, and her love of fishing, Duke basketball and Atlanta Braves baseball. She was a homemaker. She loved spending time with her family along with her husband. They held the distinction of being the longest married couple in Mississippi. They were married for 75 years. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She enjoyed life and never met a stranger. She was always willing to do anything for anyone. Her presence in all of our lives will be greatly missed.

She is preceded in death by her parents; son, Hubert Earl Wallace; daughter, Yvonne Wallace; brother, Willard Givens; and sisters, Ethel Spiess, Audrey McGregor and Irene Dufrene.

Survivors are her husband of 75 years, Kimble Wallace of Monticello; son, Kimble Wallace Jr. and wife, Kathy, of Monticello, and Ronnie Wallace and wife, Sherri, of Jayess; daughter, Shelia Wallace Smithie and husband, Bobby, of Jayess; five grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff of St. Luke’s Hospice, and to her caregivers, Bobbie Cothern, Maxine Rutland, Trish Johnson, Darlene Lamb and Megan Hutchinson.

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