Sharon Kay Wallace

Passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 13th 2025, at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown.

Sharon was born November 11, 1951 in a small town in Germany where she would come to be adopted by her loving parents Robert “Bob” and Edith (Waddell) Hanses. Sharon, now a part of a Military Family, would travel and live in many different parts of the world. At the end of her father’s military career, the family settled in Munfordville, KY. Sharon attended and graduated from Hart County High School in 1970. After graduation Sharon began working in the food industry where she would go on to meet the love of her life Donald T. Wallace. Donald and Sharon were married on April 2, 1977 at Wondering Woods in Cave City, KY. In August of 1979 they would later welcome a son, David J. Wallace. They were married for 39 years before Don’s passing in September 2016.

Through the years, with hard work and determination Sharon worked her way from being a server to being highly respected in the restaurant management industry. She opened and managed multiple Cracker Barrel stores across the country. Sharon retired from the company in 2002 but she wasn’t finished quite yet. Sharon would then go on to manage multiple restaurants for Yum Brand until she retired again in 2022.

Sharon met many interesting and influential people in her time in the food and restaurant industry. Many of them would become more than acquaintances, they became life long friends and family. Sharon truly enjoyed living life to its fullest through simple pleasures, talking to friends and family, snacking, and spending time with her granddaughter. Sharon had a huge heart and loving smile.

Sharon is preceded in death by her parents Robert “Bob” and Edith (Waddell) Hanses, her loving husband Donald T. Wallace, her brother Robert J. Hanses Jr, step-daughter Bridget Schoening, son in law Joe Lindsey, grandson David Schoening, and great grandson Jacob Wallace. Aunt Tincie (Maw) (Waddell) Young and Uncle Robert (Paw) Young.

Sharon is survived by her son David (Angie) Wallace of Elizabethtown, stepdaughter Sandra Lindsey of Horse Cave and stepson Donald T. Wallace Jr. of Van Buren Arkansas. Grandchildren Gabrielle Wallace, Breanna Posey, Stephanie Patino, J.C Lindsey, Casey Lindsey, Jackie Wallace, Teddy Wallace, Brandon Schoening, Joshua Sutton, and Jacob Kiser and many great and great-great grandchildren and her very close and special cousins Linda and David Habich and their son, David Habich and his husband, Marshall Wolfe, with Teresa Lindsey and Allen Young.

She will be missed and remembered forever. Family, friends and others whose lives Sharon has touched are invited to attend Services in Sharon’s honor at Browns Funeral Home in Elizabethtown. Visitation will be Wednesday April 16th at 10am with Services beginning at 1pm with Garland Hawkins officiating.

In lieu of flowers the family is requesting that donations be made in her memory to St. Jude Research Hospital.