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William Bailey Pace

Birth: Sep. 7, 1914
Era
Cooke County
Texas, USA
Death: Mar. 31, 2008
Hood County
Texas, USA

William Bailey Pace, 93, passed away Monday, March 31, 2008, at his DeCordova residence.
Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday at Wiley Funeral Home. Burial: Acton Cemetery.
Memorials: Mike Brown Ministries, 3417 Wellington Road, Suite F, Fort Worth, Texas 76116.
William Bailey Pace was born Sept. 7, 1914, in Era, Cooke County, to William and Allie Pace. Bailey was the youngest of four children and grew up on the family's cotton farm. He graduated from Valley View High School in 1932. He was the class valedictorian and a member of the baseball team. Bailey entered Texas A&M University and earned a B.S. in animal science in 1936 and his military comission as a member of the Corps of Cadets.
Upon graduation, Bailey was appointed as a county supervisor in Clay County, Ark. There he met Inez Davis and they were married in her home on Christmas eve 1939. They returned to Texas where Bailey was employed by the Texas Farm Industries in the Sugar Land Unit.
Bailey entered the U.S. Army in March 1942 and after training, entered combat in France with the rank of captain in 1944. During this time Bailey was awarded two Combat Infantry Medals, the Bronze Star and the Silver Star, in battles around Metz. His regiment was known as the "Iron Men of Metz," It was during his service in the Ruhr Valley that Bailey led Company K on the assault and capture of the Adolf Hitler bridge over the Rhine river. Informed by captured SS troops that the bridge was about to be blown up by German soldiers, Mr. Pace assembled his company and returned back across the Rhine minutes before the bridge was blown up.
After the ending of hostility, Mr. Pace began a long and distinguished career in the U.S. State Department. He was an assistant country director for the Agency for International Development in Paraguay and then country director in Peru, Equador, Honduras, South Korea and finally, Nicaragua. Mr. Pace completed his final years of his career in Washington, D.C. where he retired from the State Department in 1969.
Bailey and his wife, Inez, retired in de Cordova Bend Estates in 1974. Mr. Pace was a member of the Granbury Church of Christ and a 40-year member of the Century Club of Texas A&M University. He was a lifelong fan of Aggie football and exemplified throughout his life his faith in Jesus Christ and the honesty and virtue of the Corps of Cadets of TAMU.
Survivors: Daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Haller of Weatherford; grandsons, Evan P. Haller and wife, Mandy, of Carrollton, Mark W. Haller of Weatherford; granddaughter, Mary Pace Haller of Weatherford; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Published in the Star-Telegram on 4/2/2008.

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Parents:
William Sherrod Pace (1871 - 1945)
Allie Hudspeth Pace (1875 - 1960)

Spouse:
Inez Davis Pace (1916 - 2000)*

Siblings:
Flora Ethel Pace Maddox (1900 - 1986)*
Alta Mae Pace Enderby (1902 - 1972)*
Milton Hudspeth Pace (1906 - 1969)*
Ruth Rebecca Pace (1911 - 1911)*
William Bailey Pace (1914 - 2008)

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Acton Cemetery
Acton
Hood County
Texas, USA

Created by: Tim Hawkins
Record added: Apr 02, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 25694143
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Published in Texas Aggie Silver Taps July-August 2008

William B. Pace '36, 93, of Granbury (formerly of Era) died March 31, 2008. He was a county supervisor in Clay County, Ark. before returning to Texas to work in the Sugar Land unit of Texas Farm Industries. He was a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II in Germany in the "Iron Men of Metz" regiment. His military awards include the Bronze Star and the Silver Star. He was assistant country director for the U.S. Agency for International Development under the U.S. State Department in Paraguay and later in Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, South Korea, and Nicaragua. He retired from the State Department in 1969 in Washington, D.C. He and his now deceased wife, Inez, moved to Granbury in 1974. Survivors include a daughter, Deborah (Pace) Haller '75, and three grandchildren, including Evan P. Haller '01 and Mary P. Haller '06.