Jane Wallace

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Jane Miller Wallace of San Francisco passed away peacefully on June 14, 2021, of a long illness. She was born to Marion Kroemmelbein Wallace and James Miller Wallace on Jan. 23, 1951. She grew up in Charleston, Missouri, 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, Missouri. 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, Arizona, and Betsy Wallace (Brian Saunders) of Princeton Junction, New Jersey, Jane is also survived by her niece, Patricia Saunders; her nephew, Douglas Saunders; her half sister, Katie Wallace Tetreault of Minnesota; and her half brother, Alan Wallace 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.

Obituary is courtesy of McMikle Funeral Home of Charleston.

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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.