Wallace Ervin Lord, age 91, passed away November 22, 2024.  Visitation will be held Monday, November 24, 2024, at 12:30P.M. in Dexter Baptist Church in Dexter. Funeral services will follow at 1:30. Burial will be private in Midway Cemetery.

Wallace, born and raised in Laurens County, was the son of the late Ralph and Essie Mae Parker Lord.  He was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Spivey Lord, his sister, Betty Lord Braswell, and his brothers, Donald and Harold Lord.  He graduated from Dexter High School in 1949, where he served as Class President.  He then attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College where he obtained his Associates degree.  Wallace then served in the United States Army as a radio operator during the Korean War.  Returning home, he attended the University of Georgia on the GI bill where obtained his bachelor's degree in Agricultural Education.  He would go on to obtain a master's and a specialist degree in education.  A career educator, he taught in Savannah and Blackshear before taking a position as woodshop and horticulture teacher at Bleckley County where he also served as FFA advisor.  He took the position of Vocational Director there in 1976, and he retired in 1995, ending an educational career that spanned thirty-eight years.  Wallace was a member of Dexter Baptist Church, where he taught adult Sunday School class for several years.

Survivors are his daughter, Lynn McMurdo of Dublin; Brad (Julie) Lord of Dudley; his grandchildren, Sydney Lord (Slade) Bryant of Atlanta and Garrett Lord of Dudley; his brother, Gerald T. Lord of Dublin; his sister-in-law, Gloria Lord of Dudley; his sister-in-law, Audrey Spivey of Athens.

The second of five children, Wallace was born into a family of farmers who have cultivated the fields and managed the forests and streams in the Dudley/Dexter area for over 100 years.  From this rich tradition sprang his love of agriculture and nature, which he was able to preserve and impart to generations of farmers over the course of his four decades as a Georgia educator.  As part of his legacy, his children live on the very same farm where he grew up.