She got exceptional grades in school going to Barroughs Elementary and Roosevelt High. She graduated early in 1944 the year she turned 17 then registered at Fresno State in the fall. She met her first husband at Hammerfield and got married April 19, 1946 to Russell E. Basque. She had a son Russell Allan who was born on her first wedding anniversary in 1947. In 1948 she had a daughter Susan Jeanne. She worked part time in the 1950's at Valley Motor Parts and Harry Coffee's department store before she went to work for the Fresno City School at Roosevelt and Hoover High. After her first husband was killed in a plane crash in 1970, she remarried Flavil Wallace who died in 1995. She liked traveling, various hobbies and learned knitting. She has two grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She also had grandchildren from her second husband.
Visitation will be held at Woodward Park Church of Christ located at 7886 N. Millbrook, Fresno, CA 93720 on Monday, November 28, 2016 starting at 9:00 am and then followed by a Celebration of Life Service at 10:00 am.
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