Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rice, Winifred Fox May 1, 1998 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 August 2, 2022, 4:46 pm Virginian-Pilot May 3, 1998 Winifred Fox Rice, 79, of the 5300 block of Count Turf Road, a retired registered nurse, died May 1, 1998. A native of Norfolk, Mrs. Rice had retired from Public Health of Virginia after 17 years. She served in the Army Nurse Corps for four and a half years during World War II, and on a hospital ship in the European area. Mrs. Rice was a member of Church of the Ascension Catholic Church, De Paul Alumni Association, Catholic Daughters of America. She served as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels in Norfolk for many years, Sentara Leigh Hospital for 12 years and also volunteered at The Hope House Foundation Thrift Store in Norfolk. Mrs. Rice was preceded in death by her husband, Timothy Robert Rice; a son, Edward Robert Rice, in 1984; a daughter, Winifred Rampey Rice, in 1992. Survivors include three grandchildren, Wendy Lynn Rampey Bowers, of Centerville, Va., William Robert Rampey, of Chicago, Ill., and Walter Edward Rampey, of Springfield, Va.; two sisters, Patricia Fox Tibbetts, and Elizabeth Fox Jackson, both of Norfolk. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Church of the Ascension Catholic Church in Virginia Beach. The family will receive friends at the church from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday in St. Mary's Cemetery, Norfolk. Memorial donations may be made to Church of the Ascension Catholic Church, 4853 Princess Anne Road, Virginia Beach, Va. 23462. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, Laskin Road Chapel, is handling arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/r/rice4060nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb