Smsgt. Horace Alton Wallace

SMSgt Horace Alton Wallace, USAF, Ret. passed on February 19, 2022 in Trinity, FL. Visitation is 12:00 p.m. Saturday, February 26, 2022 at Rocky Point Baptist Church Carthage MS. Funeral Services are 1:00 p.m. Saturday, February 26, 2022 at Rocky Point Baptist Church with burial in Rocky Point Cemetery. Rev. Allen Peoples will officiate the services. Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The Wallace Family Church home is Rocky Point Baptist Church where Horace will be laid to rest with dearest family and friends in the church cemetery. His parents were the late Mr. Gordan and Mrs. Susie (Lee) Wallace. Horace was born at his country home of Dossville, MS on August 29, 1927. Horace passed quietly and peacefully to be with our Lord on February 19, 2022 in Florida. Horace said to his family the week before he suddenly passed, “I want to go to Heaven and be with Faye, (wife, Faye Underwood of Dossville Community, married almost 30 years) and I want to go by the end of February”. He retired from the USAF MacDill AFB Tampa, FL in 1975 after 24 years honorable military service as an Administrative Officer SMS Senior Master Sergeant reporting directly to The Joint Chief and serving in Korea and Viet Nam ; Horace then went on to retire a second time after 13 years as a Purchasing Officer from the VA Bay Pines Medical Center St Petersburg, FL ; he was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and The American Legion ; Horace was an avid golfer and had a four handicap and five hole in one tee shots and was invited to be a member of The Hole In One Club. He was a member of Carswell Military Golf Association Fort Worth, TX website http://txcmga.com. He was golfing Marshall at his two Country Club courses in Fort Worth, TX. Horace was loved by friends and family wherever he traveled serving abroad in Germany and France as well at home in America. Some very special family memories “Horace liked biscuits with syrup and sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast”. “I loved Uncle Horace’s bear hugs. I loved Unc and wished that we had lived closer to spend more time together. He would play the guitar for me when I called. He would sing “The Little Red Rooster” song and we would sing along. When Visiting family and time to leave, Uncle Horace would always say to the kids “mush mush”. He would tell us a funny story and would say at the end “and I say haha and then he laughed.” He always said to tell the truth and bear scrutiny in all that you do. It is so hard to put into words Horace lifetime and what he meant to us. Horace was well loved.” Horace is survived by his family brother-in-law Mr. Howard Ramage (age 94) of Carthage, MS; and sister Mrs. Lela Dean Ludholtz (age 88) of Littlerock, AK; his children - Kathy and Kelly (Granddaughter) Bagwell, Gayla Emmerich, Tina Carter and Jeannette Long (Granddaughter). For online condolences visit www.jordanfuneralhome.com and for more information click on the Tribute wall.