Her married name was Lovice Delores Wallace. From brother, Russ' 1970 Missouri obituary
he is survived by two sons, Larry David,
Gainesville, and Michael Eldon , of the home; one daughter, Lana Jean, of the
home; one sister, Mrs Lovice Wallace, Gainesville (Gainesville, Ozark County, Missouri.) MyHeritage - Joyce Shelton Denney - Lovice date of birth. "United States Census, 1940," Vest Bushong, Gainesville, Bridges Township, Ozark, Missouri, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Vest Bushong M 33 Missouri
Wife Mabel Bushong F 34 Missouri
Son Marvin Bushong M 14 Missouri
Daughter Louis Bushong F 7 Missouri. Personal photo present
Lovice Deloris Bushong Wallace
Birth: Feb. 20, 1933
Dora
Ozark County
Missouri, USA
Death: Feb. 28, 2013
Mountain Home (Baxter County)
Baxter County
Arkansas, USA
Mrs. Lovice Deloris Bushong Wallace, age 80 of Mountain Home passed away Thursday, February 28, 2013 in Mountain Home. She was born February 20, 1933 at Dora, Missouri to Vest V. and Mabel Garrett Bushong. She married Levis (Shorty) Wallace on Dec. 3, 1948 in Brixey, Missouri.
She lived in Gainesville all of her life until moving to Mountain Home. She was a member of the College & North Street Church of Christ, having been baptized at the age of 11. She retired in 1995 from the Century Bank of the Ozarks in Gainesville, MO after 31 years of service. During that time she also helped her husband in small business operations.
She is survived by a daughter, Angela and her husband Craig Ross of Ellettsville, IN; a son, Rodney (Rusty) and his wife Debby Wallace of Branson, MO; 4 grandchildren: Amy and husband Jeremy Swafford, Julie and husband Matt Howrey, Ryan Wallace and his fiancé Rachel Duff, Sarah and her husband Michael Meyer; 4 great grandchildren: Makayla and Allie Swafford, Delton and Trevor Howrey. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Shorty Wallace and a brother, Marvin Russell Bushong.
Visitation will be from 3 until 5 PM Sunday, March 3, 2013 at Roller Funeral Home. A funeral service, conducted by Brother Ken Burton, Craig Ross and Steve Rackley will be held 10 AM Monday, March 4, 2013 at Roller Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Smith Chapel Cemetery, Brixey, Missouri
Memorial contributions may be made to the Paragould Children's Home or the Hospice of the Ozarks.
Burial:
Smith Chapel Cemetery
Zanoni
Ozark County
Missouri, USA
Created by: Kinfolk
Record added: Mar 01, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 105994459. Gainesville landmark razed after 60-plus years of service
Old Bushong building
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:10 pm | Updated: 1:23 pm, Wed Feb 13, 2013.
By Sue Ann Jones
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A Gainesville building that had gone through many transitions in its 60-plus years was reduced to rubble Monday night as the property’s new owners cleared the site with a controlled burn.
T. J. White said Monday that he and Jeff Cowart had bought the property, previously owned by Kay and Bob Campbell. He declined to specify what their plans are for the site at Highway 181 and Bulldog Drive, but it’s thought that an apartment project is being considered. The structure was burned Monday night as a training procedure for area fire departments, said Gainesville fire chief Brian Morgan.
The Times made several inquiries to piece together a history of the structures on the site. No one contacted could be sure of dates or details, and it’s likely gaps and errors are shared here, but Ozark County native Lovice Wallace, now living in Mountain Home, Ark., said Sunday she thinks the oldest structure at that location was a two-story rock house built in the 1940s by the late Schuyler Dauchy.
“It was there before the store. The Dauchys lived upstairs, and downstairs was the kitchen, and in one side of the downstairs they had a little grocery store,” she said.
Her grandfather, the late Melvin Bushong, a former Ozark County sheriff, owned much of the land in that area, and he bought the Dauchy property, probably in the late 1940s, she said.
Lovice’s parents, Vest and Mabel Bushong, moved into the house and ran the store in it for a while after Melvin Bushong bought it. Later, probably in the early 1950s, the Bushongs built the one-story building in front of the house.
“The new building had a small grocery store, and there was a service station on one end that had one or two stalls for doing oil changes,” Lovice said, adding that the building was also the headquarters for Bushong Oil Company, which delivered gasoline to area service stations while also running the station on the family site.
A row of small, one-room cabins, built from rock to match the store and house, stood in a row on the east side of the property; a trailer park also operated in that area some of the time.
After Melvin Bushong’s death in 1953, Vest Bushong became the owner of the grocery store and oil company with Marvin “Russ” Bushong managing the oil company. Marvin bought the business several years later after Melvin retired.
Melvin enlarged the “new” rock-faced building, more than doubling its size, Lovice said. The remodeled building housed the store and service station as well as restrooms and a small café.
Sometime later, Melvin sold the building to Don and Dorcas Rackley, who then, as now, lived across the road from the structure. Vest Bushong continued to operate the store in the building, renting from Rackley.
Around 1962, Lovice and her husband, Shorty Wallace, who had a sporting goods store on the Gainesville square, bought the grocery and dry goods inventory from Melvin Bushong and moved their business to the family site, merging the groceries, sporting goods and dry goods while renting the space from Rackley.
The dates aren’t known, but a couple named Reeves operated the café at one time, and J. R. Evans ran the gas station.
Lovice and Shorty Wallace sold the business in 1978. “Shorty had a farm to tend to up off of Highway 5, and he also sold real estate for Joe Bill Blisard,” Lovice said. The couple moved to Mountain Home in 1988. Shorty Wallace died in 2001...............
.....................The last restaurant to fill the building was Carla’s Country Café, operated for several years by Carla Jenkins, who closed the business Sept. 30, 2012. The building has been vacant since then.