Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rice, Clarence F. 1957
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Ionia County News, 3 Oct 1957

Prominent Ionia Township Farmer Taken By Death

Clarence F. Rice, 64, of RFD 1, Ionia, died suddenly Friday afternoon, September
27, following a heart attack suffered in McNamara’s drugstore in Ionia.  He was
pronounced dead on arrival at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Rice was born March 22, 1893, in Indiana and moved to Grand Rapids in 1918.
 He was engaged in the wholesale lumber and veneer business until 1941.  At that
time he retired from the lumber business and purchased the extensive Emory
Townsend Farms in Ionia township.  He has operated the farm since that time. 
Mr. Rice was a member of several fraternal organizations.

Surviving are his wife, Jule, one daughter, Mrs. H.B. Corwin of Morristown,
N.J.; two sons, Clarence Jr., of Lansing and Stephen of Ionia; six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday, September 30, at the Shaw-Rivett Funeral
Home, with the Rev. Fr. Roger Bunday, pastor of St. Johns Episcopal Church of
Ionia, officiating.  Interment was in Oakwood Cemetery, Muir.


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