Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rice, Lincoln Phelps May 10, 1998
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May 11, 1998 Daily Press

WILLIAMSBURG - Lincoln Phelps Rice died May 10, 1998. Born March 9, 1923, in 
Oak Park, Ill., he spent his early childhood in South Africa at the Mapurnulo 
Mission Station in Natal, where his father, an ordained minister of the 
Congregational Church, was assigned as a missionary.

He returned to the United States in 1934, and his teenage years were spent in 
Oklahoma and South Dakota. Link was drafted in 1943 and was assigned to the 
Navy. After various tours of duty and school, he was commissioned as an ensign 
in July 1945. He served in both World War II and the Korean War. He received 
his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech 
in the '50s, graduating with highest honors.

His career was spent at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, where he 
joined the newly organized department which planned new data communication 
capabilities using the telephone network to provide services to meet the 
communication needs of the emerging computers and associated terminals.

He was active in many church, civic and social organizations. He was a member 
of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. After living in New Jersey for 37 years, 
he returned to his wife's home state and had been living in Williamsburg since 
1991.

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Ashley Hudgins Rice; three children, 
Margaret R. Rice, Judith R. Lefebvre and Randolph L. Rice; three grandchildren, 
Tim, Laura and Leslie Lefebvre; and three sisters, Cynthia McCrae, Helen 
Pickett and Julia Mark.

A memorial service will be held at Greensprings Chapel, 3687 Ironbound Road, 
Williamsburg, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11 a.m.



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