Clara Rice
February 22, 1918 — March 5, 2009
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Colonel Clara D Rice, Ret., 91, of Waco, passed away Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Providence Hospital in Waco.
Services with full military honors from the U.S. Army will be 2 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2009, at OakCrest Funeral Home. Private burial will follow at China Spring Cemetery.
Visitation with her family will be 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd. A memorial video honoring her life will be shown during the visitation and at the service.
Col. Rice was born July 22, 1918 in Sedwick to 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 her parents; two brothers; and three sisters.
She is survived by a sister, Wilma Eppolito of Rosenberg; four 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.
Colonel Clara D Rice, Ret., 91, of Waco, passed away Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Providence Hospital in Waco.
Services with full military honors from the U.S. Army will be 2 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2009, at OakCrest Funeral Home. Private burial will follow at China Spring Cemetery.
Visitation with her family will be 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd. A memorial video honoring her life will be shown during the visitation and at the service.
Col. Rice was born July 22, 1918 in Sedwick to 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 her parents; two brothers; and three sisters.
She is survived by a sister, Wilma Eppolito of Rosenberg; four 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.
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