Emma Francis Haven Rice

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Emma Francis Haven Rice, 84, died Tuesday, July 15, 1997.

Graveside services will be at 10:00 a.m. today in Heart Cemetery at Booker, Texas with the Rev. Lloyd Thiessen officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.

Mrs. Rice was born in Reydon, Oklahoma.

She moved to Perryton in 1930 from McLean, Texas.

She married James Wesley Rice in 1930 at Cheyenne, Oklahoma. He died in 1975.

She was also preceded in death by two daughters, Thelma Rice and Shirley Fish.

Mrs. Rice was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church.

Survivors include three sisters, Louise Davis of Austin, Texas; Marguerite Latham of Booker; and Ann Devers of Balko, Oklahoma; three grandchildren; two great grandchildren; as well as other relatives and friends.