BERNICE RICE

Death Calls Bernice Rice
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Rice
Was Teacher For 12 Years

Miss Bernice Rice, 32 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.
G. Rice of Third Street, died Thursday night at the
Paintsville Hospital from pneumonia. She had been at the
hospital ten days having been taken there December 6.

Miss Rice had taught in the Paintsville Schools for the past
ten years. Before that she taught in the County Schools two
years.

She was one of the most popular and best loved teachers in
the Big Sandy Valley and everyone who knew her felt a deep
sense of loss at her passing.

Miss Rice was converted and joined the Missionary Baptist
Church in 1924 when she was 17. She was a graduate of the
Paintsville High School and attended the University of
Kentucky.

Funeral services were held at the Missionary Baptist Church
at 2 o’ clock Sunday afternoon. Burial was in the J. B. Wells
Cemetery in Bridgeford addition. Funeral services were in
charge of Rev. Sam Sloan.

Musical selections were offered by a quartet composed of Mrs.
Nelson Howard, Miss Esther Thomas, R. C. Thomas and Dr. H. G.
Hazelrigg.

At the request of the family, Mr. Thomas and Miss Thomas sang
a duet that had been practiced and was to have been sung at
the Sunday church services by Miss Rice and Miss Thomas.

An unusually large crowd attended the funeral rites.
Arrangements were handled by the Undertaking Department of
the Paintsville Furniture Company.

Pallbearers were Dr. Darwin Slone, Glenn Powell, C. F.
Walters, W. F. Spradlin, Irvin Arrowood and Fred M. Hefner,
Members of the City Board of Education were honorary
pallbearers.

Miss Rice’s Sunday School class sat on the pulpit during
services, and the teachers in the City Schools attended in a
body.

Besides her parents, Miss Rice is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Graham Harris of Prestonsburg, and Miss Mary Martha Rice
of Paintsville, and three brothers, I. G. Rice, Jr., Ashland;
Samuel M. Rice and Theodore Rice of Paintsville.

Paintsville Herald
Thursday
December 23, 1937