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DATE: SATURDAY, October 30, 1993                   TAG: 9311010323
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BUENA VISTA                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT RICE, WILLIAM BASIL

RICE, William Basil, 81, of Buena Vista, died Thursday, October 28, 1993, at the University of Virginia Hospital. He was born in Rockbridge County on September 6, 1912, son of the late John Tyler and Esther Campbell Rice. He was a member of the Buena Vista Pentecostal Holiness Church. Surviving are his wife: Bertha Virginia Pugh Rice; one son, Marshall Rice of Amherst; two daughters, Barbara Rice Davis of Buena Vista, Mary Rice Kline of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; eight grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; one sister, Virginia Lynn of Roanoke. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 31, 1993, at the Buena Vista Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. David Bain officiating. Interment will be in Rockbridge Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the Lomax Funeral Home on Saturday, October 30, 1993, from 7 to 8 p.m. 


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