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Wallace, never married, is survived by sister Mary (Bill) Van Horn, Mt Gilead, Ohio, brother George (Roma ) Wallace, Burgoon, Ohio, brother David Wallace, Perrysburg, Ohio, sister Ann (Larry) Hayward, Hillsboro, Texas. Wallace had numerous extended family, including great nieces, nephews, cousins as well as friends, co-workers and colleagues in the beef industry that he considered family.

Wallace graduated from Eastwood High School in 1962, he played on Eastwood’s first football team and served as Eastwood’s first FFA chapter president. Wallace graduated from The Ohio State University in June 1967. He was a member of the meats judging team in 1965 and the general livestock judging team in 1966. He served as a Saddle and Sirloin officer, Delta Theta Sigma officer, Alpha Chapter, and as overall livestock chairman of the Little International. He has been honored with The Ohio State University Agricultural and Home Economics College’s Young Professionals Award and was inducted into The Ohio State University Animal Science Hall of Fame.
In 1967, Wallace joined Central Ohio Breeding Association as beef field representative, and in 1969, he joined the Select Sires Inc. staff as beef sire analyst. He was later promoted to vice-president, beef programs. During his tenure at Select Sires, he acquired more than 600 beef bulls from 19 breeds to be marketed throughout the world.

Wallace was one of an original group of cattlemen that helped form the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF), a group that has molded genetic evaluations into what they are today. He served as a member and board member of BIF and the only person to have attended every BIF convention, from 1967 through 2007. He served as a member and chairman of the reproduction committee and a member of the sire evaluation committee. He was awarded with BIF’s Continuing Service Award and the Pioneer Award, and co-authored the BIF 25-year history, Ideas into Action.

In 2004, Wallace was recognized as one of BEEF Magazine’s Top 40, an honor given to 40 people that had made major contributions to the beef industry throughout the past 40 years. He was a leader in the areas of sire evaluation, progeny testing and estrus synchronization in the United States and throughout the world, and was a frequent speaker on these topics.

Wallace was a visionary, a thinker, a teacher, a mentor, a cattleman and a friend. He loved good cattle, but more importantly, he loved the people that he had the opportunity to work with. He left a big footprint on the beef industry. He will be missed by many.

Memorials can be sent to The Ohio State University, The Department of Animal Sciences, c/o Dr. James E. Kinder, Chair, 2029 Fyffe Road, Columbus, Ohio, 43210.

Margaret “Cookie” Elizabeth Traynham passed away suddenly at her home in Arbuckle, CA on January 22, 2008. “Cookie” was born April 29, 1941 and had a passion for her Angus, Shorthorns, Brahmans, pets, flowers and garden.

She is survived by her husband Lee, daughter Buckley Cox, Eagle Point, OR and her son Roy Traynham, Arbuckle, CA and families.

Grave site services were held on January 28, 2008 in Woodland, CA.

All of us at Angus, The Magazine join the entire Angus fraternity in extending our heart felt sympathy to the Traynham family.