Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Lurlene Rice

Sept. 3, 1918 - Nov. 28, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 11/29/1994

SOUTH BEND - Lurlene Rice, 76, of Elgin, Ill., formerly of South Bend, died at 1:30 a.m. Monday in Carrington Care Center, South Elgin, after an illness. Mrs. Rice was born Sept. 3, 1918, in Cannell City, Ky., and lived in South Bend most of her life.

 

On June 15, 1934, in Hazzard, Ky., as Lurlene Nipper, she married Farmer Rice. He died Jan. 16, 1992. She is survived by two daughters, Peggy Maxwell of Chandler, Ariz., and Annette Rappaport of Valparaiso; three sons, Clyde of Chicago, Ray of Elgin and Von; 13 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; a sister, Wanda Lee Griggs of Lexington, Ky.; and a brother, James Nipper of South Bend.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Hollis-Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call one hour before services in the funeral home.