Verda Jewel Rice, 92, of Honey Island, died Friday May 7, 2004 at Silsbee Oaks Nursing Facility. Funeral Service will be Sunday May 9, 2004 at 3:00 P.M. at Broussard’s 700 W. Saratoga Hwy, Kountze, Texas with burial to follow at Jordan Cemetery in Honey Island. A gathering of family and friends will be today from 6:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. at the funeral home.
A life long resident of Honey Island and a member of Emmanuel Baptist Chruch.Verda was a retired Cafeteria worker for the Kountze School district and also for the Honey Island Swimming Pool.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Norman David “Red” Rice.
She is survived by her son: Norman David Rice Jr. and his wife, Lora Mae, of Shepherd; daughters: Verda Mae Sutton and her husband P.D. and Juanita Johnson and her husband Cecil of Honey Island. She was a loving grandmother to LaRue and Robert Rice, Shannon Tolar, Deborah Morse, Elain Sutton, Susan Holland, Joan Brandt, Stanley Key, Donna Wright, Greg Johnson, Elizabeth Leslie, Monica Smith, Steven Johnson, Kelly Key, Peter Johnson, Galen Key and a loving great grandmother to 31 grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandson.