RICE, Harold E. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Harold Edwin Rice of Mellott, age 57, died Sunday morning, December 5, in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Lafayette. He was born at Mellott, February 21, 1925, the son of James W. and Ruth McAlister Rice. September 2, 1947, he married Margaret Stucker, who survives. A veteran of World War II, he was a 1943 graduate of Richland Township High School and was a graduate of Lafayette Business College.

  Rice was manager of the branch and a vice president of the First National Bank of Crawfordsville. He was a member of Mellott United Church of Christ, Mellott Volunteer Fire department, Quigley-Palin Post American Legion, Indiana Society of Agri Bankers, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, American Bankers Association and Bank Administration Institute.

  Also surviving are a daughter, Becky L. McDaniel of stone Mountain, Georgia; two sons, Greg and Gary, both of Covington; a sister, Margaret Ann Martin of Indianapolis; two brothers, Richard of Lafayette and Lowell of Newtown; an aunt, Edith Strong of Logansport; and a grandson.

  The body was taken from Thomas Funeral Home at Waynetown to the Mellott United Church of Christ for funeral services Wednesday afternoon with Rev. John Fleming officiating. Burial was in Waynetown Cemetery. -s