Obituary

KENSEY CARROLL WALLACE, 86, of Ona, fought courageously long and hard against Parkinson's disease, cancer and kidney failure, and died Sunday, January 23, 2005, in Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation of Putnam. Funeral service will be conducted 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at Heck Funeral Home, Milton, with Rev. Joe Dolen and Rev. Don Reynolds officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Memorial Park, Milton, with military graveside rites by American Legion Post 139, Milton. He was born August 13, 1918, in Cabell County, West Virginia, a son of the late Dewey and Frances Lykins Wallace. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Helen Faye Pitts Wallace; two brothers, Peter C. and Billy Joe Wallace; two sisters, Lola Holley and Violet Chandler. Kensey was a sheet metal worker for the C&O Railway, working at the Huntington and Bornaugh plants. He retired in 1978 after 39 years of service. He served in the U.S. Army as a tower guard, guarding prisoners of war camp. He received an honorable discharge from Regional Station Hospital, Fort Bragg, N.C. on July 12, 1945. Kensey was past member of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association and was a former Master Mason member of the Minerva Lodge #13 until his Parkinson's started deteriorating in 1993. He was a life member of the Martha Hunting Club. He was a member of Bedford Methodist Church and visited Susanah Baptist Church and Guyan Creek Baptist Church. He is survived by two daughters and one son-in-law, Sharon Wallace of Ona and Janie and John Giompalo of Huntington; four sisters, Delores Perry of Milton, Nellie Fields of Ironton, Ohio, Virginia Davis of Garden Ridge, Texas, and Thelma Stevenson of Clifton Forge, Va.; one granddaughter and her husband, Dena and Kevin Smith of Barboursville; one grandson and his wife, Greg and Trisha Giompalo of Louisa, Ky.; four great-grandchildren he loved very much, Cody and Casey Smith and McKenzie and Nicholas Giompalo; and a loving host of nieces and nephews. Special thanks are extended to two special friends, Amy Fields and Stephanie Midkiff and to all the angels at Sunbridge for your care, support, and love since December, 2000. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at Heck Funeral Home, Milton.