Beulah Anita Wallace
Beulah Anita Wallace, age 94 of Germantown, Tennessee and longtime Potosi, Missouri resident, entered the presence of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Monday, June 18, 2013.
Beulah was born September 24, 1918 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri to Raymond Cecil Simpson and Eunice Blount Simpson. Beulah was one of five children born to Ray and Eunice and she was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Frank, Don, Ted and son-in-law, Robert Skaggs. Her brother Max Simpson survives her and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
She married George S. Wallace Jr. on July 25, 1935 and lived in Potosi, Missouri. George died on February 18, 1986. Six children were born of their union and survived her: Harriett Skaggs of Mineral Point, Missouri; Carolyn Churchill (Jack) of Germantown, Tennessee; David Wallace (Anita) of Cary, North Carolina; Gail Turner (Larry) of Thousand Oaks, California; Christine Bay (Charles) of Columbia, Missouri and Diane Hill (Dennis) of Potosi, Missouri. She is also survived by nineteen grandchildren, thirty-eight great grandchildren, and fourteen great great grandchildren.
Beulah was a member of the Potosi Presbyterian Church where she sang in the choir, taught a Sunday school class and served as president of the woman’s bible study group. She was a member of the Mine-a-Breton Historical Society. She loved her Lord, her family, reading, bird watching and gardening. After George’s death, Beulah enjoyed traveling to many countries around the world and eventually left her longtime home in Potosi and moved near her daughter Carolyn in October of 2007 where she resided until her death at the Village in Germantown, Tennessee. During those years at the Village she took up oil painting (to the delight of friends and family), participated in water aerobics, Tai Chi, and enjoyed book reviews. She attended Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church in Germantown where she was active in Sunday school, church and bible study.
Memorial Celebration of Life Services was held at the Village in Germantown, Tennessee at 2:30 PM on June 26, 2013 as well as on July 20, 2013 at the Potosi Presbyterian Church, Potosi, Missouri.
Memorial Donations in memory of Beulah may be made to The Children’s Foundation of Mid-America, INC. at 608 Pine Street, Farmington, Missouri 63640 or the Potosi Presbyterian Church at 104 W. Breton Street, Potosi, Missouri 63664.