Agnes Cecelia Rice

Services: A Funeral Service will be held Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 7PM in the funeral home chapel with pastor Barry Goodson officiating. Interment will be Friday, April 20, 2007 at 10AM in the St. John's Cemetery, Hollywood, MD. Visitation: A Visitation will be held Thursday, April 19, 2007 from 5PM till 7PM in the funeral home chapel. Agnes Cecelia Rice, 77, of Leonardtown, MD died April 14, 2007 in INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA. Born July 6, 1929 in Mechanicsville, MD she was the daughter of the late Clarence Leo and Magdalene Gertrude Pilkerton Evans. She was a homemaker in her early years, but held various jobs after the death of her first husband, Hubert Z. Graves in January of 1965. In her later years she returned to being a homemaker and in December of 1987 she married T. Brooks Rice. She enjoyed cooking for her family, sewing, crocheting, working crossword puzzles and get-togethers with friends and family. She was a very warm, friendly and caring person with the sweetest smile who struck up conversations with people everywhere she went whether she knew them or not. She had a very loving spirit and a love for life. She felt blessed to have lived long enough to see the birth of two great grandchildren, Kiley and Tyler. She was our rock and we will forever miss her. She is survived by her husband, T. Brooks Rice; two daughters; Darlene Brinkley and her husband Allen of Ocala, FL and Elise Graves of Tall Timbers, MD; her sister, Mary Aleathea Redmond of St. Mary's City, MD; Three stepchildren; Stephen Rice and his wife Trudy of Lusby, MD, Kirk Rice and his wife Barbara of Sunman, IN and Rebecca Schulte and her husband Michael of Loveland, OH. She is also survived by three grandchildren, Brian, Heather and Amanda; ten step-grandchildren, John, Jimmy, Brian, Eric, Elizabeth, Hannah, Benjamin, Megan, Evan and Ellen and two great grandchildren, Kiley and Tyler. The family will receive friends on Thursday, April 19, 2007 from 5:00-7:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel, Leonardtown, MD where a Funeral Service will follow at 7:00 PM with Pastor Barry Goodson and Bob Davies officiating. Interment will take place on Friday April 20, 2007 at 10:00 AM in St. John's Cemetery, Hollywood, MD. Pallbearers will be Kirk Rice, Stephen Rice, Michael Schulte, Merle Rusaw, John Harris and Harry Nelson. Contributions may be made to Arthritis Foundation, Maryland Chapter, 9505 Reisterstown Road, Suite 1 North, Owings Mills, MD 21117 and/or the charity of your choice.