Jane Wallace

Jan 23, 1951 June 14, 2021

Jane Miller Wallace of San Francisco passed away peacefully on June 14th 2021 of a long illness. She was born to Marion Kroemmelbein Wallace and James Miller Wallace on January 23, 1951. She grew up in Charleston, MO and did her schooling in Charleston except for a year at Bethany Episcopal Day and Boarding School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a year in Springfield MO. In 1972 Jane attended World Services for the Blind, a life skills and training center for adults in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Jane moved to San Francisco in 1975 and became part of a circle of sight-challenged friends who bowled, toured, socialized, and attended programs at the Lighthouse for the Blind. In recent years she became active in the California Council of the Blind and was particularly supportive of their scholarship program for young blind students.

Jane loved dogs, cats, and horses, read vociferously (books on tape), and followed her Giants and 49ers. Jane drew immense joy in being connected to her family, close friends, and helpers. Dearly beloved by her sisters Patricia Wallace (Jan Konstanty) of Tucson and Betsy Wallace (Brian Saunders) of Princeton Junction NJ, Jane is also survived by her niece Patricia Saunders, her nephew Douglas Saunders, and her half-sister Katie Wallace Tetreault and half-brother Alan Wallace, both of Texas. Hearing her chipper voice on the phone will forever be a happy memory for us all.

The family thanks her helpers, the care givers at All Saints in San Leandro and Vitas Hospice, Sutter Van Ness, Sutter Mission Bernal, Kentfield SF, and her pastors. Due to her complicated lifelong health issues, Jane willed her body to UCSF to “pay it forward”. The family hopes to have a small social gathering at a future date. In lieu of flowers, donations are encouraged for the California Council of the Blind Student Scholarship program at www.ccbnet.org or World Services for the Blind at www.wsblind.org.