Roy Wallace

Love and Understanding
Scene from a courtship: Three months after they met at a group share in the Hamptons, Susan Rhoades left her job as an emergency room nurse so she could follow Roy Wallace to Tokyo, where he had taken a job as a broker.

An optimum situation for cementing a fledgling relationship it was not. Ms. Rhoades spent her days waiting for Mr. Wallace to come home from work. "Some nights I'd be crying when he walked in," she said. "I'd say: 'I have to go back. I need my friends.' He didn't say: 'This is too much pressure for me. Why don't you go back to New York?' He didn't say, 'Snap out of it.' He was understanding."

They were married within the year, and two years later they came home. Mr. Wallace, 42, worked as a broker with Cantor Fitzgerald. They bought a home in Wyckoff, N.J., and had two children, Mallory, 6, and Caroline, 3.

Scene from a marriage: "He used to say, 'I don't know about you, but I'm not going anywhere,' " Mrs. Wallace, 41, said. "I was so happy to be married. I just loved having an adult person to hang out with. We just laughed about the same things."

Scene from a family: "Mallory had just started soccer. He took her to her first game the Saturday before he died. I've never seen him so proud. He's walking around with his camera, saying, 'This is great!' She just ran around aimlessly and had fun. He went on and on about it: 'I loved the soccer game!'"

Mallory played out all 10 weeks of soccer.