St. Clair County Obits

BETTY LEE RICE

El Dorado Sun
Betty Lee Rice, 77, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, formerly of Independence, died Friday, Aug. 31, 2001, at her home in Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Rice was born April 10, 1924, to Kinzy and Darcy Grayer. She married Grant Rice on March 20, 1942. They moved to Oklahoma City in July of 1967. She was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Grant Rice, her daughter, Martha Picard, her parents, her sister, Norma Hightower, her brother, Kinzy Grayer, Jr., her grandson, Paul Prater, a great-granddaughter, Tonya Turner, and a great-grandson, Collin Livings.
Her survivors include her three sons, David Rice, Yukon, Oklahoma, and Mark and Kevin Rice, Both of Oklahoma City; five daughters, Trudy Turner, Leeton, Mo, Lana Downey, Independence, Mary Bennett, Las Vegas, Nevada, Susan Prater, Independence and Betty Blake, Riverside, Ohio; her sisters, Darcy [Mickey] Temple, Mary Huffman, Martha Parker and Virginia Pate; 25 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sheldon Funeral Home, 2111 st., Highway 32, ElDorado Springs, MO. Burial will be at the Taberville Cemetery, Taberville, MO.
Arrangements were made by Sheldon Funeral Home.
Friends can visit from 12 until 8 p.m. Sunday at the Baggerly South Funeral Home, 5708 S. Western, Oklahoma City