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Note: 1. Copied from the Mexico Evening Ledger, 30 Nov 1965: "Miss Maude Wallace Dies At 90 Miss Maude Orita Wallace, head of the music department of the Mexico Public Schools for 39 years, and a private piano teacher for many years more, died at 4:52 a.m. today at Audrain Hospital at the age of 90. She had been in failing health. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Arnold Funeral Home. Dr. Bradford Powell, pastor of Mexico Methodist Church of which Miss Wallace was a lifelong member, will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace, and a brother, Sam Wallace, long-time Mexico chief of police, are buried. Devoted to music and music education all her life, Miss Maude, as she was called by generations of pupils, continued to accept a few piano pupils until her final illness. She had been in the hospital since a fall on October 30. She was born in Mexico Oct. 7, 1875, to William and Rosa Rebecca Ellis Wallace. After finishing Mexico schools in 1893, she attended Hardin College, Kirksville Normal College, Boston School of Expression, and Chicago School of Music. In 1905 and 1906 she taught history of music at Spalding College at Muskogee, Okla., and the next year she came home to Mexico and taught in the public schools until her retirement in 1946." 2. From a telephone conversation with Elizabeth (Ellis) Daniel on 28 Sep 1985): "Aunt Rosie was a most domineering woman. So much so that when Maude Orita wanted to marry, no man was good enough for Aunt Rosie."
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