RICE, Donald Lewis

RICE, GRAY, ELSEA, VANATTA, PROCTOR, GARREANS

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 5/15/2010 at 11:57:40

Donald L. Rice

Donald L. Rice, 74, of Sidney died Tuesday, Aug. 14, at Friendship Manor in Grinnell.

Funeral services were conducted Friday at Crawford-Marshall Funeral Chapel in Sidney, with the Rev. Marvin L. Hulse officiating. Burial was in Sidney Cemetery.

The son of William and Bonnie Rice, he was born Nov. 1, 1915, in Montgomery County. He was married to Gladys Gray in Rockport, Mo., on Feb. 27, 1938. Mr. Rice worked with the Iowa Department of Transportation for 36 years, much of the time as a shop foreman.

Survivors include a son, Steve of Montezuma; three grandchildren; two brothers, Otis of Kaukauna, Wis., and Wayne of Farmington Hills, Mich.; and four sisters, Wanda Elsea of Scottsbluff, Neb., Hazel Vanatta of Thurman, Iowa. Darlene Proctor of Grinnell and Betty Garreans of Protem, Mo. ~ Grinnell Herald Register, Grinnell, Iowa, August 23, 1990