Horace Everett Rice

Services: A Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD with Rev. Rona Harding officiating. Interment will follow in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Newport, MD. Visitation: The family will receive friends on Thursday, November 18, 2010 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD. Horace Everett Rice, 84, of Mechanicsville, MD passed away November 15, 2010 at his residence. Born August 15, 1926 in Newport, MD he was the son of the late Ernest Vernon and Elizabeth Louise Thompson Rice. Mr. Rice was preceded in death by his siblings; Margaret Dora Martin, Ernest J. “Pete” Rice and Katherine Ruth “Jodie” Lyon. He was a farmer. The family will receive friends on Thursday November 18, 2010 from 11:00AM to 12:00 PM, in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD where a funeral service will be held at 12:00 PM with Rev. Rona Harding officiating. Interment will follow in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Newport, MD. Pallbearers will be Billy Lyon, B.J. Lyon, David Lyon, David A. D. Lyon, Henry Oliver and Paul Oliver. Contributions in memory of Horace Everett Rice may be made to the Hospice of St. Mary’s, P. O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650 and/or the Mechanicsville Vol. Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 15, Mechanicsville, MD 20659.