Rice, Frances Marie

Funeral services for Frances Marie Rice, 87, of Longview, will 
be noon Wednesday, December 20, 2006, in the chapel of Rader 
Funeral Home of Longview, with Mr. David Cotham officiating. 
Interment will follow in Memory Park Cemetery. Mrs. Rice died 
Friday afternoon, December 15, 2006, at a local hospital. Mrs. 
Rice was born July 12, 1919, in Merkel, Texas, and had lived 
most of her life in Longview. She was retired after more than 
20 years from the Longview News-Journal in advertising and was 
a member of Alpine Church of Christ. She was preceded in death 
by her parents, Joseph and Myrtle Paul; and her husband, Lee 
Ervin Rice. She is survived by her cousins, Leta Fay Touchstone 
of Dallas, Dorothy Redd and Johnnie Walker, both of Houston; 
friends, Loyd and Norma Forsyth of Longview; and guardian, Traci 
Delaney of Longview. A memorial guestbook may be signed online 
at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 12/19/2006.