Birdie Rice, 97, of New Bloomfield, died Tuesday March 11, 2008 at the Presbyterian Manor in Fulton, MO.
She was born Oct. 22, 1910, in Miller County, the daughter of the late John Hendry and Hattie (Cliburn) Althoff. On Sept. 1, 1928 she married Thomas Nelson Rice in Jefferson City. He proceded her in death on March 27, 1984.
She is survived by three daughters, Henryetta Cave of New Bloomfield, Shirley Berry of Fulton, Dorris Staats of Grovespring, MO; seventeen grandchildren, twenty-six great grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren.