Eddie Lee Rice Sr.

Published 12:00 am Friday, May 4, 2012

March 18, 1934 – April 30, 2012

NATCHEZ — Services for Eddie Lee Rice Sr., 78, of Natchez, who died Monday, April 30, 2012, at his residence, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Daughters of Zion Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Randy Jackson officiating.

Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Bateaste Memorial Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Rice was born March 18, 1934, in Natchez, the son of Sylvester Rice and Clemie Burr.

He was retired.

Mr. Rice was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Cleotha Rice; and two sisters, Emma Lee Johnson and Bertha Hodges.

Survivors include his wife, Audrey Lee Rice; five children, Eddie Lee Rice and wife, Beverly Lynn, of Baton Rouge, Leonard Rice and wife, Felicia, Janice Rice, Virginia Robertson and husband, Roy, and Deborah Rice; like a son, James Credit and his wife, Thelma, all of Natchez; two brothers, James Burr and wife, Carrie, of Natchez and Sylvester Rice of Rhode Island; two sisters, Artimese Harris of Dallas and Taigner “Tiny” McDowell of Flint, Mich.; and two aunts, Alma Fleming and Janie James, both of Natchez.

Pallbearers will be Eddie Lee Rice Jr., Leonard Rice, Roy Robertson, Eddie Hawkins, James Credit, Carl Rogers and Chad Rice.

Online condolences may be sent to www.bateastefuneralhomes.com.