Tenth Generation


132. Wallace Elliott MCKENZIE was born on 19 November 1906 in Cranston, Providence Co., RI. He died on 12 January 1988 at the age of 81 at the Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, Prince William City, VA. He was buried in St. David's Episcopal Church cemetery, South Yarmouth, MA. Wallace McKenzie graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1930 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Wallace changed the spelling of his name from MacKenzie to McKenzie after he graduated from college. He was a mechanical engineer with New England telephone company from 1930 to 1971.

After Wallace and Gertrude were married they lived on Warren Street, 217 Hillcrest Road, and 52 Manning Street in Belmont, MA, from 1937 to 1959. They moved to 259 Love Lane in East Greenwich, RI, in 1959, then to Westwood, MA, in 1965, and to 84 Chipping Green Circle in South Yarmouth, MA, in 1971. In 1988 they moved to Tallowwood Drive, Montclair, VA. Gertrude stayed there after the death of Wallace and moved in 1991 to Fairfax County to be nearer Don and Marcia, living in a retirement home in Sterling for four years, then with Marcia and Neil in Chantilly, then to assisted living in Oakton, and finally to a nursing home in Fairfax.

Wallace Elliott MCKENZIE and Gertrude Alice ANTHONY were married on 9 January 1937 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, RI. Gertrude Alice ANTHONY, daughter of Ralph H. ANTHONY and Angeline Baker CONGDON, was born on 3 September 1909 in Fall River, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 9 March 2002 at the age of 92 in Fairfax City, Fairfax, VA. She was buried in St. David's Episcopal Church cemetery, South Yarmouth, MA. SSN 037-30-9425

Wallace Elliott MCKENZIE and Gertrude Alice ANTHONY had the following children:

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