Curtis James Wallace, 69, died August 15, 2019, at Foxdale Village, State College, after a year and a half battle with esophageal cancer. Born in Allentown, he was a son of the late James J. Wallace and Anne Shatsky Wallace.

He was a 1968 graduate of Quakertown Community High School, and earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Penn State University.

He taught for 33 years in the Quakertown Community School District, the last 31 years at the former Milford Middle School. He was a student council and a yearbook advisrr, and a spring plays and musicals director.

He was a long time scorekeeper for the Quakertown Community High School boys basketball team.

He is survived by a brother, Thomas and his wife Marsha Wallace of Alachua, Florida; and two cousins, Michael Shatsky of Bethlehem and Jane Kline of League City, Texas.

Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

Arrangements were made by Gilbert Funeral Home Inc., Whitehall.