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Col Clara D. Rice
22 Jul 1918 – 5 Mar 2009
| Birth | 22 Jul 1918 |
| Death | 5 Mar 2009 |
| Cemetery | China Spring Cemetery China Spring , McLennan County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Slick aka Sharon Erwin McNary on 15 Nov 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34541520 |
Bio
Colonel Clara D. Rice, Ret., 91, of Waco, passed away Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Providence Hospital in Waco. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, March 8, at OakCrest Funeral Home. Services with full military honors from the U.S. Army will be at 2 p.m., Monday, March 9, at OakCrest Funeral Home. A private burial will follow in China Spring Cemetery. Col. Rice was born in Sedwick, Texas, to the late Robert L. and Elise Rice. She graduated from Meridian High School in 1939, and from Providence School of Nursing in 1945. She served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp. for 20 years. She served in Hawaii, Japan, Stuttgart, Germany, and Korea. She also worked stateside posts in Washington, Missouri, Texas and New Mexico. After retiring from the Army, she taught nursing at the University of Texas in El Paso for 10 years. She then retired to Waco, where she has since lived with her beloved pets. She was preceded in death by two brothers; and three sisters. Survivors include her sister, Wilma Eppolito, of Rosenberg; nieces: Peggy Moore, of Schulenberg, Jean Harvey and husband, Percy, of Clifton, Martha Fisher, of Odessa, and Judy Scherer and husband, Mike, of Richmond; several great-nieces and nephews; special friends, Doris Rodriguez who worked for her for many years, and Geneva Harvey, a niece who has been an angel to her; and her beloved pets, a cat, Grayboy, and a dog, Oseto. Waco Tribune-Herald: 3/07/2009...A4
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- Carrah Beatrice Rice Duncan 1906–1991
- Alma Lee "Bobbie" Rice 1920–1993
- R W Rice 1922–1922
- James Carroll Rice 1923–1935
- Martha Wilma Rice Brown Eppolito 1926–2012
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