Fern Opal Rice 1910-1976

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Date: 3/5/2013 at 09:48:35

Times Herald, Carroll, Carroll, lowa, USA Monday, August 16, 1976

MRS. FERN OPAL RICE

LAKE CITY — Mrs. Fern Opal Rice, 66, of Lake City, died Saturday, Aug. 14, at her home of a heart attack. She was a retired telephone operator of the General Telephone Co. for 22 years, a member of the Baptist Church and Star Rebekah Lodge.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Huffman Memorial Chapel in Lake City with the Rev. Kenneth Peterson officiating. Burial will be in the Lake City cemetery. Friends may call after 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Rice was born April 28, 1910 at Gilmore City, a daughter of Martin Christenson and Ethel Greenland. She married Harry Rice June 20, 1929 at Fort Dodge.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Larry (Marilyn) Nile of Vancouver, Wash.; her mother , Mrs. Ethel Christenson of Albert City; a sister, Mrs. Dorothea Brewster of Laurens; a brother-in-law, Archie Rice of Lake City, a grandson, nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, Harry, who died in 1974, she was preceded in death by her father.