Nelda Mae Wallace

Published 8:10 pm Monday, June 17, 2019

Services for Mrs. Nelda Mae Wallace. of Bogue Chitto. are 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2019, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with burial at the church cemetery.

Visitation was Monday, June 17, from 5 until 8 p.m. at Riverwood Family. She will lie in state Tuesday, June 18, from 10 a.m. until time of service at the church.

Mrs. Nelda Mae Wallace, 85, went to be with her Lord on June 15, 2019, at her residence.

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She was born on July 4, 1933, to the late Walter Lee Smith and Mae Smith Smith.

Mrs. Nelda loved her family and enjoyed her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She also enjoyed admiring and tending to her flowers, watching sports on T.V., sewing, texting and receiving texts and pictures.

She worked as a seamstress for many years at Shahl Urban and she was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Billie B. “W.A.” Wallace; sisters, Fannie Lee Lewis and Helen Louise Smith and brothers, Marshall E. Smith, James Carroll Smith, Eldon Paul Smith and George T. Smith.

Those left to cherish her memory are her daughters, Becky Smith and husband, Jimmy; Pat Case and husband, Duane; Cindy Broom and husband, Keith; brother, David L. Smith; seven grandchildren, Allison Smith Nippe and husband, Shane; Lauren Smith; Michael Case, Luke Case, Jon Case and wife, Diane Leggett Case, Meagan Broom Lee and husband, Haden; Jessica Broom Breland and husband, Brent and four great grandchildren, Westin Case, Mae Nippe, Noah Lee and Lexis Leggett. She is also survived by a host of special nieces and nephews.

Condolences and other information are available online at www.riverwoodfamily.com.