Paris native Julie Wallace Seymore, 53, of Allegan, Mich., died Thursday, July 18, 2013, at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., after a brief illness.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ridgeway Funeral Home, with Alan Trull officiating. Burial will be in Bethesda Cemetery.
Chosen as pallbearers are Ron Keele, Johnny and Tommy Moody, Tommy Anderson, Tommy Valentine, Brady Mase and Tim Ballard.
Honorary pallbearers will be Patsy Strait, Wanda Scofield and Donna “Dinky” Colson.
Visitation will be after 10 a.m. Saturday.
Born in Paris on Dec. 3, 1959, she was the daughter of James Veltman Wallace and Mary Elizabeth Smith Wallace Wilson, now both deceased.
Her fiancé, Mark Showers of Allegan, survives.
Seymore was a former waitress, bartender and bouncer in restaurants and taverns in Michigan. She was a former sawyer at Miller’s Sawmill in Henry and Carroll counties and was the current assistant manager at Fast Stop in Allegan. She belonged to a nondenominational church.
She leaves three daughters: Darla (James) Robertson and Shastity Seymore, both of Lewisburg, and Carolyn Mathis and special friend Bobby Hearn of Allegan; two sons: Joe Mathis III and special friend Laura Boyd of Clarksville and Bobby (Melissa) Mathis of Allegan; One sister: Kimberly Wallace (Ron) Keele of Cunningham; three brothers: Phillip Wallace and special friend Janet Hazlett of Paris, James Wallace Jr. and special friend Patsy Strait of Allegan and Timothy Wallace of Independence, Miss.; several grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
A son, J.B. Mathis, also preceded her in death.