Clara Isabelle Mariner Wallace

Background

Wallace, Clara Isabelle Mariner was born on April 15, 1904 in Northville, South Dakota, United States. Daughter of Frank Converse and Merta Mary (Peterson) Mariner.

Education

AB, Park College, 1926; postgraduate, San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1929-1930; postgraduate, Landour (India) Language School, 1930-1931; postgraduate, University of California at Los Angeles, 1940.

Career

Office secretary, National Missions Larger Parish, Hurley, Wisconsin, 1926-1929; headmistress, Intermediate Girls' School, Farrukhabad, India, 1931-1932; informal religious educator, North India Mission, Mainpuri, 1932-1936; office secretary, youth work secretary, National Missions Larger Parish, Hurley, 1936-1938; dormitory supervisor, mathematics teacher, Wasatch Academy, Mount Pleasant, Utah., 1938-1943; supervisor village education, North India Synodical Board, 1944-1959; social worker Head Start, Community Action, Wooster, Ohio., 1967-1969; office secretary, inspector, Palmer House Apts., Wooster, Ohio., 1969; coordinator, teacher adult basic education, Wayne County Joint Vocational School, Wooster, Ohio., 1970-1986; teacher adult basic education, Wayne County Joint Vocational School, Wooster, Ohio., 1986-1994. Member human rights study American Association of University Women, Wooster, 1960-1970. Program chair Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Wooster, 1987-1988.

Achievements

• Clara Isabelle Mariner Wallace has been listed as a noteworthy Adult education educator, missionary by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Treasurer Presbyterian Church, Mount Pleasant, Utah, 1940-1943. Elder United Church of North India, Etah, 1945-1948. Member adult education committee First Presbyterian Church, Wooster, since 1962, Christian education committee, 1972-1975.

Precinct committeeman Democratic Party, Wooster, 1968-1971. Board directors Wayne United Ministries, Wooster, 1973-1992, jail chaplain support team, since 1973. Board directors League of Women Voters, Wooster, 1987-1994.

Family selection committee board Habitat for Humanity, Wayne County, Ohio, 1987-1994. Member Wayne County Housing Coalition, 1991-1994.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, television, sewing-knitting, piano playing, great-grandchildren.

Connections

Married John Elder Wallace, December 30, 1949 (deceased October 12, 1980). Stepchildren: John Elder II, Mary Jane.

Father:

Frank Converse Mariner

Mother:

Merta Mary (Peterson) Mariner

Spouse:

John Elder Wallace

child:

Mary Jane Wallace

child:

John Elder II Wallace