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Billy Joe Wallace

Age

76

Entered into Rest

February 25, 2010

Service

Monday, March 1, 2010 11:00 AM R. E. Rogers Funeral Home

Visitation

after 6 Pm Sat. R. E. Rogers Funeral Home

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Billy Joe Wallace, 76 of Williamson, WV passed away Thursday, February 25, 2010 at the Williamson Memorial Hospital.
He was born May 8, 1933 in Shady Valley, Tn. the son of the late Hettie West and Roger West. He was also preceded in death by his loving daughter, Joi Aloise Parsley.
He was a retired Railroad engineer with over 39 years of service. He was a US Army Veteran and was a member of the East Williamson Baptist Church. He was the Secretary for the Brotherhood of Locomotive of Engineers.
Bill was a loving husband and dad and married to his wife, Dolly Jean Skeens Wallace for almost 46 years.
Survivors including his immediate family members, are his loving wife, Dolly Jean Skeens Wallace; sons, Billy Joe Wallace Jr. of Haw River, NC, William Heath Wallace of Huntington, WV and Brian Keith Wallace and daughter-in-law, Adrienne Blackburn of Canada, Ky.; brothers and sisters, Walter West, Acie West, Evelyn Atwood and Lawrence West all of Beeson, WV., Mildred Milum and Irene Vaught of Princeton, WV., Christina Vaught of Charleston, WV and Linda Hensley of Smithland, Ky.; grandchildren, Jeremy Gage, Damon Keith and Zachary Kenneth Wallace, Billy Joe Wallace III, Amber Dale Wallace, Earsel Hensley Jr., Derrick Hensley and Jessie Parsley and 8 great grandchildren.
Other than his long years of work, he enjoyed taking his son's hunting and fishing and being in the outdoors. Other hobbies included woodworking, sewing, watching old westerns, reading, scrapbooking and telling stories about his life and the way it used to be. He will be greatly and sadley missed. We all love him very much. He helped raise two Boston Terriers; Bugedi and Undelay, who will miss seeing him also. Love you, Dad and for others; We'll miss you BJ.
Funeral services will be held at 11 AM Monday, March 1, 2010 at the R. E. Rogers Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Bob Norman officiating. Burial will follow in the Mountain View Memory Gardens, Huddy, Ky. Visitation will be held after 6 PM Saturday and Sunday at the Funeral Home Chapel. Men of the East Williamson Baptist Church will serve as pallbearers.
R. E. RogersFuneral Home of Belfry is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences at www.rerogersfuneralhome.com.