Walter Rice Sr.
Posted: June 28, 2022
JOLIET, Ill. — Walter M. Rice Sr., 68, died June 20, 2022.
Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, at Pine Grove M.B. Church in Starkville. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Cemetery. Visitation is from 1-6 p.m. today, at West Memorial Funeral Home. West Memorial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara A. Isaac Rice; son, Terry D. Rice, Walter Marcellus Rice and Wesley Darnell Rice, all of Joliet; daughter, Gwendolyn Isaac of Joliet; siblings, Brenda Rice Osazuwa of Bryan College Station, Texas, Diane Wright of Daphne, Alabama, Cynthia King of Cordova, Tennessee, Gewndolyn Boyde of Irving, Texas, Evette Rice and Nathaniel Rice of Starkville; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.