Ronald Walter Rice 52, of Powderly, died Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at Paris Regional Medical Center. Committal of ashes will be held in Missouri at a later date with military honors. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of cremation arrangements.
Ronald was born April 26, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from high school in Nevada, Missouri and received his bachelor’s degree from Embrey-Riddle University. Mr. Rice was honorably retired from the United States Air Force attaining the rank of Master Sergeant after 20 years of service. He married Linda Ruth Knowles on August 1, 2016 in Grove, Oklahoma.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Ruth Rice; five children, Robert Rice, Katrina Leahy, Antony Rice, Adrian Knowles, and Sherlyn Knowles; twelve grandchildren, Austyn Rice, Brennen Leahy, Kiera Leahy, Jayson Brown, Micayla Rice, Justin Rice, Alan Rice, Evan Rice, Scarlett Rice, Alyce Knowles, Lauryn Speer, and Anthony Speer; his mother, Bonnie Marie Acklin Rice; his grandmother, Annabelle Spencer; and three sisters, Lisa Davis and husband, Mike, Christina Bogner and husband, Kenneth, and Michelle Rice. He was preceded in death by his father, Lonnie Rice.
