[Granville-Hough] 12 Jan 2010 - Dick Rice Death

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:14:49 -0800
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
Subject: Dick Rice Death - 12 Jan 2010

    On 13 Feb 2005, I received a note from Donna (Lincoln) Rice that
her husband,
Richard Campbell ("Dick") Rice passed away at home on Feb 13, 2005.
They lived at 12505 S. Highway N, Columbia, MO 65203.  He was born Dec
11, 1933, served most of his life in the Regular Army, then was Safety
Director for the State of MO.  Burial with full military honors was 22
Feb 2005 in the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery at Fort Leavenworth,
KS.
    I will make an appropriate donation for the Hough and Neville
families to the Boy Scouts of America, Great Rivers Council, 1203 Fay
St, Columbia, MO 65201
(I owe Dorothy some mailing costs, anyway, on the crazy quilt.)  Carol
and Dorothy would especially remember Donna from prewar and wartime
visits of the family to Henrietta when Col Amer Lincoln was in WWII
service.  Dick and I worked together on SAR projects (he was influential
in the MO organization), and we did some genealogy together.  I had a
high regard for his capabilities and judgement.  There was no indication
of the nature of his illness. It seems he was only 71, barely three
score and ten.
	Last Christmas, 2009, Donna Rice, the widow, sent me a Christmas card
thanking me for the Lincoln information I had shared with Dick.  Her son
had discovered it and had taken it all to study.

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    Bible Study went well enough today (Feb 2005), as I covered Solomon,
with the
Muslim version of the Queen of Sheba visit (which includes the seduction
by Solomon and the resulting pregnancy.  This Muslim version states that
Solomon gave the Queen a banquet, which included a lot of spiced food.
It grew late and the Queen was in no shape to get to her own tent some
distance away, so Solomon offered to let her sleep in his tent.  She
insisted that was too risky and she would be sexually vulnerable.
Solomon promised her that nothing would happen unless she came to his
bed.  Sheba agreed to this condition.  However, Solomon placed the cool
water where it could only be reached by climbing over his bed.  The hot
spices in the food began having their effects, and Sheba was desperately
thirsty.  So she risked climbing over Solomon's bed, and Solomon carried
out his promise.  The hot spices seemed to work as well as Viagra, so
the rest of the night went very well.)
	You saw one of the descendants
when you saw the old newsreel of King Haile Selasie making his 1936
barefooted appearance at the League of Nations in Geneva. asking for
help when Italy invaded Ethiopia. (That was also when I discovered that
Ethiopians were not subject to Mississippi's segregation laws.)

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	Yesterday, 11 Jan 2010, I did not feel too well after my morning
exercise in the swimming pool.  I probably spent too much time in the
hot pool, which I will not do again.  I barely got home, then after a
light lunch, went to bed for three hours.  I had a late afternoon
appointment to see my cancer doctor, and he took one look at my
heamoglobin count and ordered a blood transfusion today.  So I had to go
by the hospital and get the preliminary tests late yesterday in order
for the hospital to locate the proper samples for injection at 10 am
today, The actual counts were 2.0 for WBC, 5.8 for HGB, and 44 for
platelets.