Grace Reynolds Wall

Funeral services for Grace Reynolds Wall, age 72, of the Redland Community west of Centerville were held Sunday morning, November 1, 2009, at 10:30 A.M. at the Redland Baptist Church. Rev. Brent Williams officiated at the services and interment followed in the Wall Family Cemetery at the Wall Ranch.

Grace Wall was born January 3, 1937 to Milton and Annie Reynolds. She was reared in the Elwood Community of Madison County. She was a graduate of the Madisonville High School. Grace lived in Leon County since 1954 and was a homemaker and a rancher. She loved her children and grandchildren very much and they loved her too. She enjoyed sewing, doing charity work for her church, Redland Baptist Church, and painting in oil paints. She loved being outdoors, bird watching and enjoying the wildflowers of which she knew many by their scientific name. She lived on the family cattle ranch and worked cattle along with her husband and children. Grace Wall will be remembered as a faithful and loving wife and mother and as a beautiful woman inside and out. She lived and reared her children with her strong Christian principals. Her faith was tested many times during her life, especially with the tragic loss of her son Len and the unexpected death of her son John Mark. Her faith was tested the most during her illness which she dealt with in a very positive manner, always believing that she would win the fight with her disease. After a courageous battle with cancer, she died Friday morning, October 30, 2009, at her residence surrounded by her husband and children. She was preceded in death by her parents, two sons, Len Wall and John Mark Wall and a sister, Beth Spiller.

Survivors include her husband L.C. Wall Jr. of the Redland Community; two sons, Benny Wall and his wife, Becky, of the Evans Chapel Community of Leon County, Lowell Wall and his wife, Nancy, of De Motte, Indiana; three daughters, Marilyn Wall Vornkahl and her husband, Greg, of Bellville, Angela Wall Garcia and her husband, Joe, of Dallas, Kathleen Wall Frost and her husband, Holloway, of Houston; six brothers, Walton Reynolds of the Elwood Community, Jack Reynolds of High Island, Reed Reynolds of Midway, George Reynolds of Huntsville, G.G. Reynolds of the Elwood Community and James Carroll Reynolds of Huntsville; six sisters, Sunshine Greer of Bryan, Marie Lohner of Midway, Rita Davis of Midway, Betty Ann Allen of Midway, Vada Robinson of Azle and Rebecca Harrell of Midway. Surviving grandchildren are Melanie Emert and her husband, Anthony, Benjamin Wall, Jr. and his wife Crystal, Avery Wall, Stan Keeling, Jr. , Trenna Buchanan, Shelby Wall, Lexie Wall, Marissa Wall, Kacie Wall, Walker Wall, Kutter Wall, Brier Wall, Kadynce Wall, Travis Wall Vornkahl, Henry Wall Vornkahl, “Joe Len” Wall Garcia, GraceAnn Wall Garcia, Katharyn Wall Garcia, and one great granddaughter, BreAnn Emert. Serving as pallbearers for their grandmother’s service were Benjamin Wall, Jr., Avery Wall, Stan Keeling, Jr., Anthony Emert, Travis Wall Vornkahl, Henry Wall Vornkahl, “Joe Len” Wall Garcia, Brier Wall, Walker Wall and Kutter Wall. Honorary pallbearers were Martha Knight, Henrilois Haynie, Margie Ellison, Wyman Wall and Sunshine Greer.

Grace’s family requests that memorials be made to: Centerville VFD, PO Box 340, Centerville, TX 75833; Redland Baptist Church, PO Box 902, Centerville, TX 75833 or Gideons International, PO Box 140800, Nashville, TN 37214-0800.