Services for Cleveland "Poppa" Rice, 97, who died Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. D.W. Howard officiating.
Mr. Rice was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Good Samaritan St. Clare Lodge No. 23 and the Pearl Leaf Society.
Mr. Rice was a lifelong member of Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard Rice Jr. and Mary Sanders Rice; his wife, Rebecca "Becky" Rice; six siblings, Howard, Sylvester, Walter and Richard Rice, Odessa Fitzgerald and Augusta Rice; one daughter, Joyce Daniels; one son, Jim Deterly; and one grandson, Waldell Sanders.
Survivors include two sons, Charlie Nichols and wife, Fannie, of Houston, Texas and Robert Deterly and wife, Mary Ann, of Stone Mountain, S.C.; and four daughters, Audrey Rice and husband, Eddie, Marshall Clarks and Ethel Sanders, all of Natchez; and Carol Jones and husband, Jerry, of Wisner, La.; two sisters, Alma Fleming and Francis McKnight, both of Natchez; one godson, Kenneth Elery and wife, Penelope, of Canada; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in The Natchez Democrat Newspaper
Mr. Rice was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Good Samaritan St. Clare Lodge No. 23 and the Pearl Leaf Society.
Mr. Rice was a lifelong member of Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard Rice Jr. and Mary Sanders Rice; his wife, Rebecca "Becky" Rice; six siblings, Howard, Sylvester, Walter and Richard Rice, Odessa Fitzgerald and Augusta Rice; one daughter, Joyce Daniels; one son, Jim Deterly; and one grandson, Waldell Sanders.
Survivors include two sons, Charlie Nichols and wife, Fannie, of Houston, Texas and Robert Deterly and wife, Mary Ann, of Stone Mountain, S.C.; and four daughters, Audrey Rice and husband, Eddie, Marshall Clarks and Ethel Sanders, all of Natchez; and Carol Jones and husband, Jerry, of Wisner, La.; two sisters, Alma Fleming and Francis McKnight, both of Natchez; one godson, Kenneth Elery and wife, Penelope, of Canada; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in The Natchez Democrat Newspaper
Services for Cleveland "Poppa" Rice, 97, who died Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. D.W. Howard officiating.
Mr. Rice was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Good Samaritan St. Clare Lodge No. 23 and the Pearl Leaf Society.
Mr. Rice was a lifelong member of Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard Rice Jr. and Mary Sanders Rice; his wife, Rebecca "Becky" Rice; six siblings, Howard, Sylvester, Walter and Richard Rice, Odessa Fitzgerald and Augusta Rice; one daughter, Joyce Daniels; one son, Jim Deterly; and one grandson, Waldell Sanders.
Survivors include two sons, Charlie Nichols and wife, Fannie, of Houston, Texas and Robert Deterly and wife, Mary Ann, of Stone Mountain, S.C.; and four daughters, Audrey Rice and husband, Eddie, Marshall Clarks and Ethel Sanders, all of Natchez; and Carol Jones and husband, Jerry, of Wisner, La.; two sisters, Alma Fleming and Francis McKnight, both of Natchez; one godson, Kenneth Elery and wife, Penelope, of Canada; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in The Natchez Democrat Newspaper
Mr. Rice was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Good Samaritan St. Clare Lodge No. 23 and the Pearl Leaf Society.
Mr. Rice was a lifelong member of Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard Rice Jr. and Mary Sanders Rice; his wife, Rebecca "Becky" Rice; six siblings, Howard, Sylvester, Walter and Richard Rice, Odessa Fitzgerald and Augusta Rice; one daughter, Joyce Daniels; one son, Jim Deterly; and one grandson, Waldell Sanders.
Survivors include two sons, Charlie Nichols and wife, Fannie, of Houston, Texas and Robert Deterly and wife, Mary Ann, of Stone Mountain, S.C.; and four daughters, Audrey Rice and husband, Eddie, Marshall Clarks and Ethel Sanders, all of Natchez; and Carol Jones and husband, Jerry, of Wisner, La.; two sisters, Alma Fleming and Francis McKnight, both of Natchez; one godson, Kenneth Elery and wife, Penelope, of Canada; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in The Natchez Democrat Newspaper
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