Marian Elizabeth (Pace) (Grending) Rice 

Marian was born on the 22nd of Feb. 1914 in Sunnyside, WA., to Earl J. 
and Lucy Eva (Fosket) Pace. Her grandparents were Lafayette and Helen 
Adelia (Thompson) Pace and Frank Forest and Mary Elizabeth (Johnson) 
Fosket. She passed away in the early morning of December 31, 1997 at 
Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup. Marian was married in 1935 to C.N. 
Grending in Sunnyside, and they were divorced. She was married in 1947 
to Lewis Willson Rice who died in 1967. Marian came to the Tacoma area 
in the early 1940's to find work and spent most of her life in this area with 
the exception of about 10 years in Sacramento, CA. in the 1950's. She was 
a bookkeeper who liked working with figures and on retirement enjoyed 
Genealogy along with her piano, her grandchildren and those wonderful 
`sister lunches'. Our Mother, Sister and Aunt left us a legacy of much 
laughter, mingled with some tears. Her stories are many, the `Play-tex' 
girdle that was in her purse after work and wound up in the Salad Bar at a 
restaurant; the little man who lent her $15 in order to see Kay on her 
birthday with instructions to pass it on if she couldn't reach him - how many 
times did you pass that on Mom?; the bus driver who finally asked where 
we went each week-end with our suitcase and how surprised he was to find 
it was our laundry, going to your sisters to wash; the memories of Mom and 
Pop Isley with Dot and Ken; the Bakery on "K" Street with the cream puffs 
you couldn't throw away at the end of the day, so you and Hayes Jacobs 
got them to someone who could use them; rides on "Grandpa's Boat"; Mrs. 
Gallen in Sacramento; taking 6 of us (cousins) to S.F. and with only a dollar 
left in your pocket, walked right up to the maitre d' and asked if we could 
buy some soup and split it so we could sit at the window of the fancy 
restaurant and we did; the skating rink in Sacramento and the competition; 
the trip to the family cemetery back east and when you called the taxi 
company to pick you up since they'd just taken you there, said "Sure Lady" 
and hung up; the time you gave "the cousins" a notebook of pictures with 
your X-ray on the front, with "This is your Auntie Marian speaking"; the 
August Family get-together; counting money from your "money jar" with the 
grandchildren then great grandchildren; you left us so much to remember. 
Thank you Mom, for your humor, curiosity and love of life. Marian is 
survived by her sisters and brothers-in-law, Helen Irene (Pace) Kanzler, 
Verna Mae (Pace) and Jack Wanner, Donna Maxine (Pace) and Dick 
Bergman, all of Tacoma-Puyallup area; her son, Louis Earl Rice of 
Maryland; daughter Kathryn (Kay) E. (Grending a.k.a Rice) Young and 
son-in-law Donald Ray Young, Sr. of Tacoma. She was "Granny" to Scott 
and Melanie, Donald (Jr.), Mario (Sr.), Derek and Ronda Young, Rob, 
Anthony and Laureen Rice. She was "Mimi" to Great Grandchildren, 
Kevin, Michael, Saylor, Shaina, Kaylene and Mario (Jr.) Young, Alex and 
Sophia Rice. Also her nieces and nephews, Carol, John and Peggy, 
Dorothyann, Barbara and Cathy, April, Dick, Jack and Bob. Her "twin" 
cousin, George Ludwig of Seattle and many others in our family. And the 
little girl mom had to leave in 1951 (a cousin's child) and was mom's Gift on 
Christmas Day 1997, Sharon Ann (Milhorn) Scavella of Dallas, TX. 
(Thank you Janet and Sharon). Marian's wishes were for a party, not a 
funeral and so we will do that as a family in August when we are all 
together. Her ashes will be scattered as she asked and a plaque placed with 
her parents in Tacoma at their grave site. Donations if you wish may be 
made to the Multiple Sclerosis or Cystic Fibrosis Funds, as these two have 
very special meaning to our family, or to your own special charity or 
Church. Don and I (and mother asked us) to thank our Pastor and Church 
family at Lutheran Church of Christ the King for their support, love, strength 
and prayers as you helped us so much. Our thanks to the staff at Good 
Samaritan for their kindness and compassion over and above their 
profession and to Chaplains' John, Mimi and Mary also to the staff at St. 
Joseph therapy unit for the care and help you gave. Arrangements by Lynn 
Funeral Home, 272-2131. 

Pub Date: 1/5/1998 
Tacoma News Tribune