RICE Urbana, Feb. 15 – George Frederick Rice, 77, lifelong resident of Wabash County, died at 5:30 pm today at the home of his son, Lewis E. Rice, six miles east of here. Surviving are the widow; two sons, Lewis Rice and Lawrence Rice of Wabash and one daughter, Mrs. Henry Melching of 3107 Pittsburgh Street, Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held Sunday at pm at the son’s home and at 2:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church at Urbana with burial in St. Peter’s Cemetery. Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, February 16, 1940.