Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rice, Lucy Virginia Smith November 10, 2005
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Virginian-Pilot  November 13, 2005
NORFOLK - Mrs. Lucy Virginia Rice, 92, widow of Cmdr. Charlie A. Rice Jr., U.S. 
Navy retired, died Nov. 10, 2005, at home after an extended illness of natural 
causes. She is survived by her son, Charles A. Rice III, and wife, Ruth, of 
Virginia Beach, and her grandchildren, Mark S. Rice and wife, Ho-Jung, of Pusan, 
Korea, Cheryl A. Jennings, and husband, David, of Powhatan, Va., Dennis C. Rice, 
and wife, Christine, of Norfolk and Christine L. Garland, and husband, Brent, of 
Baltimore, Md.; her great-grandchildren, Carie Eckroade, of Chicago, Ill., and 
Coleman P. Jennings, of Powhatan. She was preceded in death by her son, Richard E. 
Rice; grandson, Michael R. Rice; and her brother, James B. Smith.

Mrs. Rice was a member of Christ the King Church and parish since 1952. She was a 
past president of the Christ the King Women's Club, a charter member of the 
Catholic Daughters Court of the Holy Spirit No. 2145 and an auxiliary member of 
the Legion of Mary and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus 
Council 367.

During her husband's naval service, Mrs. Rice was active in the Navy Wives Club 
Programs, serving locally as president of the June Glunt Navy Wives Club during 
World War II. Mrs. Rice graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Norfolk. She married 
her husband, Charlie, in 1930, and continued a romance that lasted since that 
time, interrupted by his death in 1998, and to be resumed with him in heaven after 
seven long years. She had been for all her life a gracious lady and Mother, but 
always Paps' companion.

The family wishes to thank Rebecca Smith and Joan P. Wyrick for the loving care 
and concern tendered to her by them during a very difficult period.

A Wake and Rosary service will be celebrated today at 7 p.m. at Christ the King 
Catholic Church.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m. by Father Brian Rafferty at 
the church. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery in Norfolk. The family 
requests that any memorials be made to Christ the King Church or school in lieu of 
flowers.

Friends may send condolences to www.smithandwilliamsfuneralhome.com.

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