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His Life

A LIFE TO REMEMBER

May 11, 2013

                                                                      WALLACE (JUNIOR) TEED

Wally was born May 4, 1943, second child, and first son to Margaret L. and Wallace Teed. He passed away January 16, 2013 at the age of 69. Wally was born in Lewiston, Idaho and passed away in Lewiston. However there were several places he lived and ventured in between, during his life time.


He is survived by his wife, Fay. He was also married twice before. He has three children by his first wife, Erlene. A daughter, Delaine, and two sons, Jason and Paul. There were also three children with his second marriage to Margy, a daughter, LeAnn and sons, Jay and Eric. Wally had eight grandchildren.


He did not complete high school, but instead joined the Navy in 1960. After completing four years in the Navy, he then settled in Northern California, where he married and had his children. His main occupation, was an auto body shop in El Sobrante and later moved shop location to Pinole, California. Due to an onset of bad health, Wally gave up his auto body shop business and started a commercial fishing business. He could accomodate up to three people at a time on his boat and would take them out to San Francisco Bay area.


He later moved back to Lewiston, Idaho where he spent his final years. During that time he did, roof repairs, installed chain link fences, also carpenter and plumbing work for a living. Wally also was known to have a "green thumb" he loved vegetable gardens and was very successful at growing whatever he planted.


Wally was a long time member of the Elk, both in California and Idaho.


For recreation,he loved to bowl, he loved fishing, cooking, playing cards, and going to the casinos. In his earlier years, he built and restored old cars. Wally also raced stock cars as well. A close friend, Leroy McMillan,provided us with a picture of a car he had built from scratch, it was a 1938 Oldsmobile coupe. He finished the car in 1996 after almost four years working on it. He then took the car to Tennessee and entered it in a car show. Afterwards, the car went from California(its place of concepion) to Idaho.


Anyone that knew Wally, knew him to be, most of the time, a stubborn man, and never liked to admit defeat. He was strong in his feelings of conviction towards anybody he felt had gone wrong in some way. This at times made him seem like he was a hard non caring person. But Wally could also be a kind and lovng person, as well. He, as we all have done a time or two made some bad choices in his life, and he dealt with those choices as best that he could.


Wally, was cremated, his wife,Fay kept half of his ashes to be spread in various spots she and Wally loved in the surrounding area of Lewiston. The other half of his ashes, were sent to his daughter, Delaine, where she had them interred in a vault at a veterans cemetery in Sacramento, California. 


On April 13th, 2013, a memorial gathering was held in Lewiston, with 30 or so attending. His wife, Fay hosted along with various family members on both sides assisting. In attendance, were Wally's younger sister and her husband, Jan and John Fullerton,of Butte, Montana. His daughters, Delaine from California and LeAnn, from Alaska. Also attending his niece Yvonne Johnson from Idaho and a younger brother, Dennis from Washington state. Wally also leaves three other siblings, younger brother Roger Teed Walker, residing in Springfield, Missouri, another brother David Teed Fiskum, of Washington state and an older sister Lois Mercado, in California. They weren't able to attend. There were many stories an tributes given about Wally, some funny and happy, and some sad. We are hoping the attendants with these stories will eventually share with all of us, in this memorial website. In addition, Wally's brother Roger is having a tree planted in his memory and honor, that will overlook our mother Margaret and grandmother Hannah's buriel site at Sunset Cemetery in Butte, Montana.


The important thing is that, he is forgiven his transgressions, and is resting in peace with our Lord, and rejoicing with loved ones that went before him. We love and forever will miss you, dear husband, father, and BROTHER...