On September 16, 1998, a funeral service was held at the First United Methodist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. It was the funeral service for George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama. In the 1960s Mr. Wallace was the symbol for racism and bigotry in our country. In his 1963 inaugural speech he proclaimed, "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever!" When African-American students attempted to enroll at the University of Alabama, he attempted to prevent their entry, and when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March, Wallace called him every name in the book.

The last thirty years of his life dealt George Wallace some cruel blows. His wife Lurleen died an early death of cancer. A would-be assassin's bullet confined him to a wheelchair…