An obituary has been published for retired educator Clyde Wallace, who died Dec. 2 with COVID-19.
Arrangements are being handled by Hughart, Beard and Giles Funeral Home, and the family plans to have a memorial next year to avoid the risk now of exposing anyone to the coronavirus.
Two organizations are suggested for memorial gifts — the Hopkinsville Rotary Club, P.O. Box 199, Hopkinsville, KY 42240, or the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2190, Chicago, IL 60606-6995.
“I’m asking that people donate to either Hopkinsville Rotary Club to support local scholarship or the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to support our ongoing study of how nutrition can impact COVID-19 patients in the ICU …,” Wallace’s son, Taylor Wallace, wrote in an online journal devoted to his father’s experience.
“We will be having a big celebration of Dad’s life this summer/fall, when the vaccine is widespread,” he wrote.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
