Bernice Newsome Wallace's Obituary
Bernice Newsome Wallace, 83, of China Grove, NC died Sunday, May 13, 2007, at NorthEast Medical Center, Concord.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at Elwood Lane Freewill Baptist Church with Rev. David Parrish and Dr. Thomas Parrish officiating. The body will lie in state at the church from 10:30 until the funeral hour. Burial will follow in West Lawn Memorial Park in China Grove.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 until 8:00 PM Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at Lady's Funeral Home.
Mrs. Wallace was born April 30, 1924, in Union County, a daughter of the late Gus Newsome and Laura Godwin Newsome.
She was preceded in death also by her husband, Jim Allen Wallace, who died April 21, 1980.
Survivors include two daughters, Janie Hunsucker and husband Marshall of Concord, Geraldine Combs and husband Ray of Kannapolis; one son, Allen Wallace and wife Alice of Salisbury; two sisters, Betty Carpenter of Charleston, SC and Selma Carpenter of Rockingham; six grandchildren, Sandy Hunsucker, Dale Hunsucker, David Allmon, Kenny Combs, Robin Null, and Holly Nelson; and eight great-grandchildren.
The family request that any memorials be sent to her church, Elwood Lane Freewill Baptist Church, 2113 Bertha Street, Kannapolis, NC 28083 in memory of Mrs. Wallace.
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