Memorial services for Tommie Eugene Rice, 64, of Crosbyton will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003, at Crosbyton First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bruce Cotton officiating.
Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home in Crosbyton.
He died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, at Lubbock Covenant Medical Center.
He was born Sept. 10, 1938, in Electra.
He married Pat Cagle Edwards on April 24, 1992, in Floydada.
He was a member of the Crosbyton First United Methodist Church. He attended elementary school in Plainview and was a 1956 graduate from Hale Center High School. He joined the Navy in April of 1956 and served until August 1959 as a Boiler Technician.
He started his career with the Postal Service in 1965 as a clerk in Turkey, TX. In 1970, he was a city carrier in Plainview, and then served as Plainview´s Superintendent of Postal Operations until 1988. He was Postmaster in Floydada from 1988 to 1997.
He was a member of the National Association of Postmasters and attended numerous Postal Academies as well as Wayland Baptist University. He was a Mason and served as Past Master of Arch. J. Keys Masonic Lodge in Plainview. He moved to Crosbyton in 1999 from Floydada. He is preceded in death by two sisters, Johnny Faye Rice and Rita Jean Rice.
Survivors include his wife, Pat Rice of Crosbyton; one son, Kirk and his wife, Kathie, of Pampa; two daughters, Jeanean Wood and her husband, David, of Plainview, Jennifer Justice, of Plainview; one stepson, Neal Edwards and his wife Julie of Turkey; one stepdaughter, Tammi Stafford and her husband, Wesley of Sweetwater; and seven grandchildren, Amber and Haley Wood, Karami Rice, Caleb Justice, Connor and Collin Stafford, and Caden Edwards.
The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Lubbock, 1102 Slide Road, Lubbock, TX 74916, to Crosbyton First United Methodist Church, Box 476, Crosbyton, TX 79322 or to the Joe Arrington Cancer Center.
The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, Feb. 7, 2003
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