Memories of Wallace Heritage - Official website of Rev. JO Wallace

"Perhaps we can help spread the gospel as Dad dreamed." Brother L. H. Benson was elected
pastor at West Nashville. Later, J. 0. was chosen to pastor the work in Oak Ridge. There were
twenty-eight that first Sunday.
After a year at Perryville at the campground the senior Wallaces moved back to their duplex
back of the West Nashville church. "Dr. Wyatt thinks I need to be back."
In 1958 Brother A. T. Morgan again approached J. 0. about serving at headquarters. "Would you
consider helping us with the Sunday School work?" So he was appointed director. "I think we
ought to go back to Nashville to be with Mom and Dad, Mary. He is failing fast. I can travel for
the Sunday School Department from Nashville."
It was a short time, full of memories, fraught with fear because it was very obvious that Brother
Wallace was about gone, Always a preacher, a doer, J. W. began to take an interest in African
violets while he was bedfast.
"I'll build Dad some window shelves," J. 0. planned. In a few short weeks several plants
brightened the room. "Son, pray that God will heal me. I've got one more sermon." He fingered
the new Thompson Chain reference Bible, a recent gift. But God had other plans. After two
weeks in the hospital, tended lovingly by his sons, J. W. Wallace finished his course. But
Pentecostal churches stand as testimony to what a man can do even after fifty. About ten years
after Brother Wallace's death in 1959, memorial services were held for him in the two churches
he served longest-Nashville and Bemis. Brother C. M. Becton called J. 0. Wallace to tell him of
the “Founder's Day” meeting in honor of J. W. Wallace. "Will you speak for us?"
126 Kenner home J. W. Wallaces shared with Glenn and Marie Wallace - 1956