Pefley - Wallace B.
CASTRO VALLEY ---- Charter Chabot College music faculty member Wallace B. Pefley died Sept. 15 of complications from heart bypass surgery. He was 77. Pefley was hired by Chabot Community College in 1962 to start the infant college’s music program. At that time, he constituted the entire music faculty of the college, which was in its second year and was housed in World War I-ear portable classrooms on a temporary San Leandro campus. He worked fro Chabot for 16 years before retiring in 1978. A 40-year veteran of teaching, Pefley also taught at Florida Southern College, Panola Junior College in Texas, and Eastern Washington University. His first teaching position was at a one-room schoolhouse in a lumber camp in Idaho. He served in the Army with the Coast Artillery in Lewes, Del., from 1941 to 1945. Pefley was born in Nampa, Idaho, to Idaho pioneers Wynn W. and Mary O. Beard Pefley. His grandfather, Peter Jackson Pefley, was mayor of Boise for two terms starting in 1884. Pefley attended Boise High School and was a member of the first graduating class of Boise Junior College (now Boise State University). He graduated from the University of Idaho in Moscow, and earned his master’s degree and his doctorate in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He was a lifetime member of St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral in Boise, where he was an alter and choir boy. He was also a member of the Beta Gamma Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, a music fraternity, and the Southern Alameda County branch of the Music Teachers Association of California. He is survived by his wife, Esther Pefley; daughter Barbara Pefley of Los Gatos; son, David Pefley of San Lorenzo; a sister, Etha Bradford of Yucca Valley; a granddaughter, Jennifer Pefley of San Lozenzo; step-grandsons, Stephen and David Camp of San Lorenzo; and nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late Edward M. Pefley. Services were private, with burial at Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery in Hayward. Donations to the Blood Bank of Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association, (800) 841-186m extension 6260, or the American Heart Association, 6433 Thornton Ave., Newark 94560, are preferred. (There is a picture of Wallace in later life just to the right of the second paragraph with the caption, “
Source: --The Daily Review (Hayward, CA), 23 September 1989, pg. 15