SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. -- Ilo Wallace, wife the late Henry A. Wallace who was vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt, died Sunday at her farm in Westchester County, a family spokesman said Tuesday. She was 92.
Mrs. Wallace, a native of Indianola, Iowa, married Wallace, then a cub reporter on his father's farm journal, in 1914. He died in 1965.
Wallace first served Roosevelt as agriculture secretary and vice president, from 1941 to 1944, and the late President Truman as commerce secretary. In 1948, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency as a candidate for the Progressive Party.
Wallace quit politics that year and the couple moved to Westchester.
Mrs. Wallace sponsored during World War II the Patrick Henry, the first of the Liberty ships, and served as a Red Cross Worker.
She is survived by her three children, Henry Browne Wallace, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Robert Browne Wallace, of Doylestown, Pa., and Washington; and Jean Wallace Douglas, of Washington; 11 grandchildren and six great grand-children.
Funeral arrangements were private.
