ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Wallace H. Andrews, formerly of Mechanic Falls, died after a brief illness in Alexandria, Va., on Aug. 21.

Born Feb. 3, 1925, to Henry Asa and Lula G. Andrews of Oxford, he lived on the family farm in Oxford, and then moved in 1936 to Mechanic Falls and graduated high school in 1942. He attended the Maine School of Commerce and joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943.

He spent time during World War II in Austria, Germany and Italy as an aerial navigator with the 737th Bomb Squadron of the 15th Air Force, and retired from active service in 1945. He graduated from Harvard University in 1949 and also completed his master’s in geography at the University of Chicago in 1950.

He worked for the U.S. government as a geographic intelligence research analyst for 29 years, retiring in 1979 to enjoy his interest in genealogy and travel.

He married Alice Chandler in 1954, and spent the rest of his life in Arlington and Alexandria, Va.

He leaves his two daughters, Sidney M. Kapinos and Eleanor A. Lasky; grandchildren, Samuel M. and Nicholas A. Lasky, and Laura A. and Alison M. Kapinos; sisters, Genevieve Abbott of Littleton, N.H., and Eleanor Abbott of Mechanics Falls; and four nieces.

He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Alice, in 1998; and his parents.

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