By Staff
April 14, 2005
Funeral for Grady Boyd Rice, 61, of Lacey's Spring was Sunday, April 17, at 3 p.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home Chapel with Lowell Blankenship officiating.
Burial was in Roselawn Cemetery.
Mr. Rice died Thursday, April 14, 2005, at Huntsville Hospital. He was born Sept. 7, 1943, in Morgan County to Donald Louis Rice and Ethel Glasco Rice. He was retired as a design checker. He was a member of Lacey's Spring Church of Christ. He was preceded in death by his father.
He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Head Rice of Lacey's Spring; three daughters, Cynthia Shaver and husband Phil of Huntsville, Jennifer McBride and husband Calvin of Decatur and Phyllis R. Wright and husband Keith of Hartselle; two sons, Phillip Rice and wife Heather of Union Grove and Matthew Rice of Tuscaloosa; his mother, Ethel Glasco of Moulton; four sisters, Donna Elmore, Naomi Nelson and husband Steve, Becky Bailey and husband Jerry, and Johanna Aldridge and husband Lewis, all of Moulton; and 12 grandchildren, Kacey, Jordan and Jessica Shaver, all of Huntsville, Marlea, Abby, Gray and Max McBride, all of Decatur, Houston and Trent Wright, both of Hartselle and Harrison, Molly and Chloe Rice, all of Union Grove.
Pallbearers were Calvin McBride, Phillip Rice, Keith Wright, Phil Shaver, Matthew Rice and John Ivy.
Honorary pallbearers were James Russell, Carlton Fowler and Gene Roberts.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.