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Grace Gertrude Cronk Rice

23 Mar 1896 – 11 Oct 1998

Birth	23 Mar 1896
Death	11 Oct 1998
Cemetery	Ord Cemetery Ord , Valley County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Nebord on 20 Jun 2019
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11760160

Bio

Obituary; Grace Rice ORD -- Grace Gertrude Rice, 102, of Ord died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at the Valley County Nursing Home in Ord. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Ord Christian Church. The Rev. Michael Chase will officiate. Burial will be in the Ord City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ord Memorial Chapel. Memorials are suggested to the donor's choice. Mrs. Rice was born on March 23, 1896, in Springdale Township in Valley County to W.H. and Nancy E. (Timmerman) Cronk. She attended Plain Valley School until the eighth grade. She married Herman Rice on Oct. 28, 1914, at her parent's home in Valley County. She wrote many poems, including "A Policeman's Wife." Mr. Rice died on Aug. 17, 1963. Mrs. Rice moved to the NoLo Villa at North Loup in July 1978. She continued to live on her own, cooking and cleaning for herself, until December 1995, when she entered the Valley County Nursing Home. Survivors include two sons, Walter Hubert Rice and Harwood L. Rice, both of North Loup; 10 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Velma Meese of Ord. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by one son, Robert; one infant daughter, Lena; two great-grandsons; five sisters; and three brothers. The Grand Island Independent Tuesday, October 13, 1998 Grand Island, NE.

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Family

Parents

• William Henry Cronk Jr 1860–1946
• Nancy Edith Timmerman Cronk 1867–1951

Spouse

• Herman Rice 1891–1963

Siblings

• Leonard Jay Cronk 1886–1918
• Ollie Alice Cronk Bresley 1888–1958
• Ethel Etta Cronk Arnold 1890–1983
• Jennie Elmina Cronk Clement 1893–1970
• Maude Blanche Cronk Lohff 1898–1961
• Velma Adeline Cronk Meese 1902–1998
• Wayland Eugene Cronk 1904–1987
• Walter W Cronk 1909–1991
• Doris N "Strohs" Cronk Vodehnal 1910–1987

Children

• Walter Hubert "Hubie" Rice 1916–2003
• Lena Arlene Rice 1918–1920
• Harwood LaVern Rice 1922–2009
• Robert Glen "Bob" Rice 1927–1991

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