The United States Postal Service issued a 32-cent stamp honoring Lila and DeWitt Wallace in the Great Americans series.
On January 22, 1998, the United States Postal Service issued a 32-cent postage stamp jointly honoring Lila Acheson Wallace and her husband DeWitt Wallace as part of its long-running Great Americans series. The stamp commemorated their joint legacy as cofounders of Reader's Digest and as two of the most significant philanthropists in American history.
The Great Americans series was designed to honor individuals who made substantial contributions to American life across politics, science, the arts, and civic affairs, and the inclusion of the Wallaces reflected the lasting cultural and philanthropic impact of their work, more than a decade after Lila's death in 1984 and nearly three decades after DeWitt's death in 1981.
The stamp served as a formal, national recognition of the couple's achievement in creating one of the world's most widely circulated magazines from humble beginnings, as well as their subsequent devotion of enormous resources to supporting the arts, education, and cultural institutions through vehicles such as the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Fund. For philatelists and historians alike, the stamp stands as an enduring physical tribute to a partnership that reshaped American publishing and philanthropy, ensuring that new generations would encounter the Wallaces' story through this small but symbolically rich artifact of civic commemoration.