Some people should live forever.

Chip Wallace should have lived forever.

Ask anyone who knew him.

He and Don Dickert grew up together on “the hill” in Brundidge; they attended the Methodist Church just down the hill; and they shared many interests including the Boy Scouts. Wallace’s dad, Reynolds, was the Scoutmaster and Chip reached the rank Eagle Scout, Scouting’s highest rank and he took pride in that honor.

Along the way, Wallace developed an interest is sports, especially Pike County High School football during its lean years and also during the Bulldogs state championship years.

He chronicled the Bulldogs’ success with a poem that honored Pike County High School and the young men who played the game. The poem wasn’t just about football championship or the lettermen, it honored every player. “Because football is a team sport; everybody wins; everybody loses … Together.”

John Mike McCall, WTBF Radio general manager, said he didn’t know where to start or what to say, about Chip Wallace.

“What to say, about Chip?” McCall said. “He was the kind of man all men should strive to be. Chip liked everybody, actually, he cared for everybody. There’s no way to know how many birthdays he called in to the morning radio show and how much that meant to all those people.

“Chip was a member of the Rotary Club and Sons of Confederate Veterans and a member of the Brundidge Industrial Development Board. He loved his church and people and he liked to have fun.”

And he was a true Auburn football (sports) fan.

Don Renfroe, longtime friend of church member Chip, said the first thing he wanted to say about Chip Wallace was that he was the most positive person he has ever known.

“I never heard him say a bad thing about anybody,” Renfroe said. ‘If somebody did start to say something negative, Chip would turn it into something positive.”

Renfroe and Wallace shared an interest in history, especially Pike County history.

“We would take folks on a tour of Pike County and Chip knew more about the history of Pike County than I did and I had told him about our history,” Renfroe said, laughing. “What’s the best thing that can be said about a man? That he was a good man, a good family man, that he cared about others and that he loved the Lord.

“Or you could simply say “Chip Wallace.”