[2] A year after her birth, the family settled in Bell County, Texas where she would attend public schools around the city of Temple.

She matriculated to the recently relocated Baylor Female College in nearby Belton,[1] along with her younger sisters Pearl and Annie,[3] and was awarded a B.S.

[1] After spending the next academic year in residence at Chicago,[3] in 1903 Pace joined the faculty of Baylor University as an assistant professor of biology.

[3] Pace was popular with her students, who she took on field trips across central Texas, the Rocky Mountains, and even Yellowstone National Park.

[4] In 1921, Baptist preacher J. Frank Norris found what he believed was a case of borderline heresy by Pace based on her assertion that, although she accepted Genesis, the language might be allegorical.