Ben Frank Wallace

Ben Frank Wallace, 93, of Biloxi, MS, passed away on March 3, 2012 at his home in Biloxi. His parents, Frank and Syrena Wallace, his wife, Rosemary Stringer-Wallace and his step-son, Jarrell Evans preceded him in death. He is survived by his brother, Walter Wallace, his sister, Frances Wallace, his daughter, Rosemary Holiday Wallace, and his step-son, Christopher Cain, his two grandchildren Ashley Evans and Christie Mclendon, and five great grandchildren. Mr. Wallace was born in Memphis, TN in 1918 but his family soon moved to Cleveland, MS, where they operated a dairy farm. At an early age, Frank learned the value of hard work from the business end of a cow. Mr. Wallace graduated from Cleveland High School in 1937 after which he attended Mississippi College earning a Master of Arts in history. During World War II through the Korean conflict, Frank served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. After the U.N. negotiated cease-fire in Korea, Frank taught history at Gulf Coast Military Academy of Gulfport. In 1962, Mr. Wallace joined the Mississippi State Highway Department where he worked in Research and Development from which he retired in 1982. During retirement, Frank revisited his love of history publishing works on several topics such as communism, totalitarianism, and works against the privately-owned Federal Reserve banking system that controls America’s monetary system in violation of the U.S. Constitution as written by our Nation’s founding fathers. One might say that Frank so loved his country that it would be accurate to state that America just lost our youngest founding father and a Patriot’s patriot. Hold your head high, Mr. Frank. On Friday, March 9, a Memorial Mass will be held at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Biloxi. Visitation will commence at 12:00 P.M. and a Memorial Mass will begin at 1:00 P.M. In lieu of flowers donations should be made to Arc of the Gulf Coast, P.O. Box 6651, Gulfport, MS 39506 (formerly the Gulf Coast Society for Retarded Citizens) Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home, 15th St., Gulfport is in charge of arrangements. View and sign register book at www.bradfordokeefe.com.