Obituary: Carol "Gene" Brice, February 7, 2013

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
March 2015
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The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - February 8, 2013

CAROL "GENE" BRICE

Carol "Gene" Brice, 80, has "gone fishing" with the Lord and his family 
members who preceded him. There will be no visitation. Graveside services 
were held at 2 pm Thursday, February 7, 2013, at Fort Chadbourne Cemetery. 
Services were under the direction of Shaffer Funeral Home.

Gene was born on January 19, 1933, to Earl Eugene Brice and Carrie Vivian 
(Snow) Brice in Nolan County, Texas. He later moved to New Mexico where he 
graduated from Deming High School in 1951.

He worked for El Paso Natural Gas for thirteen years and spent the rest 
of his career traveling from the west coast to the east coast working in the 
construction industry as a millwright until his retirement. After retirement,
he settled in Robert Lee so he could be close to his family and near the 
lake where he could spend his spare time fishing.

Gene was an extraordinarily talented man and great artist. He made pastel 
drawings and had a very unique art in which he would find meteorites and make 
them into sculptures of animals and people. Gene also loved to watch 
old westerns, his favorite being anything with John Wayne as the star.

Gene had a wonderful sense of humor and loved a good joke. He was a very 
honest man; you knew where you stood with Gene, he either liked you or he 
didn't. He will be greatly missed by all those whose lives he touched.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers Billy Ray Brice and 
Allen Brice.

He is survived by his son, Bruce W. Brice and wife, Gayla of Santa Fe, Texas; 
daughters, Wendy Mahill and husband, Joel of Bakersfield, California, and 
D'Lois Schuman of Roswell, New Mexico; sister, Earline Moore of Cabot, 
Arkansas; his brother, Gary Brice and wife Marilynn of Albuquerque, New 
Mexico; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

The family would like to thank the ICU staff and doctors at San Angelo 
Community Hospital, especially, Dr. Ayass, for his genuine care and 
compassion. Also a special thanks to Martin Landeros for his special 
friendship to Gene.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Gene's 
memory to the American Heart Association, PO Box 841125, Dallas, 
Texas 75284-1125.

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