Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rice, Harry Leslie September 19, 1948
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Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard - Mon. Sept. 20, 1948


Harry Leslie Rice, 73, who resided on Yeomans Street, died at 3:30 Sunday 
morning, September 19, in Blodgett hospital, where he was taken a week ago 
suffering with a kidney infection.

Funeral services will be attended Tuesday afternoon at two O’clock at the Myers 
funeral home on East Main Street with burial in Easton cemetery. The Rev. Wayne 
Davis will officiate.

Mr. Rice was the son of William and Sarah Jane Rice and was born in Ionia in 
the house on Yeomans street where he has lived. He was educated in the Ionia 
school and Notre Dame.

Going out from Ionia as a member of Co. I. Michigan infantry in the Spanish-
American war, he served later with the 15th U.S. Infantry, being in the service 
from May, 1898 to March 1903. He saw service in the Cuban Campaign, in China 
during the Boxer insurrection campaign. He has been a member of the United 
Spanish War Veterans.

May 16, 1903, he was married to Bertha E. Wellwood of Bushnell Township 
Montcalm County.

Surviving him are his wife, a son, Leslie H. Rice of Detroit, and two 
daughters, Elizabeth, the wife of Ed. Belcher of Rudyard , and Thelma, the wife 
of Harold Hill of Ionia. Another daughter, Evelyn M., preceded him in death. He 
is also survived by seven grandchildren and one nephew, Wm. B. Rice, of Mt. 
Clemens.

Honorary pall bearers to be chosen from the ranks of the United Spanish War 
Veterans, will be Henry Mestemaker of Lyons, Henry Miller, H. Larson, Earl 
Mason and Abe Snyder of Ionia, and John Hunter of Lake Odessa. 

Active pall bearers will be Jack Hopkins, Frank Sharpe, William Scholtens, Carl 
Seabrook, Garold Gray and Don Alberts.





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