Tag: 20th Century

Elbert Kenneth Rice (1945-2010)

Birthdate: November 20, 1945
Birthplace: West Street, Carey, OH
Child of: Benjamin Franklin Rice & Ruby Mae Conley
Death: September 27, 2010
Place of Burial: Ann Arbor, MI

First Marriage to Jane Douglas in November 1967. Divorced August 1968. They had one child.

Second marriage to Linda Jean Cooley on October 3, 1969. She was born July 16, 1949. They had two children.

Parent of:

Joseph Samuel Rice

Jason Ian Rice

Lacie Lynn Rice

Benjamin Franklin Rice, Jr. (1942 – Present)

Birthdate: January 6, 1942
Birthplace: Carey, OH
Child of: Benjamin Franklin Rice & Ruby Mae Conley

Benjamin Franklin Rice, Jr. was born north of Carey, OH on January 6, 1942. He lived in Carey until graduating high school in 1960, then moved to Chicago to attend DeVry Technical Institute. He married Judith Ann Rames December 21, 1963. Leslie Joan was born January 27, 1965. Ben Sr. died August 11, 1965, and in Spring 1966 they moved to Ohio to help Ruby adjust. Ben started working for the Northern Ohio Telephone Co on June 7, 1966, and they rented a farm house east of Bowling Green before buying a house at 134 Lehman Avenue, then another at 117 Byall Avenue. Julie was born August 28, 1968. Ben and Judy divorced in 1971, and Ben was awarded the house, the car and the kids. Ben and Kathleen “Kate” Ellen McCrea were married January 15, 1972 in the living room of Kate’s parents, Jim and Betty McCrea, at 264 Margaret Place in Perrysburg, OH.

In 1975, Ben was transferred from Bowling Green to Gibsonburg, OH. In September, Ben and Kate bought 101 E. First Street, Woodville OH where they lived for the next 42 years. Ben transferred back to Bowling Green (company now known as GTE) in the early 1980’s , then in 1993 was elected Business Manager/Financial Secretary of I.B.E.W. Local 986, representing GTE employees. He re-elected in 1993 and 1999, then retired in 2002. He and Kate moved to 1281 Tiffany Circle South in Palm Springs, CA in late 2015, where they currently reside.

Parent of:

Leslie Joan Rice

Julie Rebecca Rice

Benjamin Franklin Rice (1912-1965)

Birthdate: November 2, 1912
Birthplace: Riceville, Kentucky
Child of: Charles Jackson Rice & Dessie May
Death: August 11, 1965
Place of Burial: Spring Grove Cemetery, KY

Benjamin Franklin Rice and Ruby Mae Conley were married December 21, 1938 by Rev. Cludy in the parsonage of a church in Tiffin OH. Rev. Cludy’s daughter served as witness. Ruby said they didn’t tell anyone for two or three days because she had always wanted to be secretly married. They both came from Eastern KY with their families between 1936 and 1938. Except for about two years during WWII when they lived in Baltimore, MD where Ben worked as a welder in the shipyards, they lived in Carey, OH the rest of their lives.

They had two children:

Benjamin Franklin Rice, Jr.

Elbert Kenneth Rice