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Leo Blaine Rice - 1/20/2012

Class of 1942

OGDEN- Leo Blaine Rice passed away on Friday, January 20, 2012. He was born on November 24, 1923 in St. Anthony, Idaho son of Leo John Rice and Naomi Smith Rice.

When he was 4 years old his family moved to Logan and, then to Ogden. He attended Mound Fort Elementary School, Lewis Junior High School and Ogden High School. He also attended Weber State College.

He was in the U.S. Navy, and a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was a medic during World War II stationed on the USS Relief and with the Marine Corps as a medic at the Chosin Reservoir.

After the war he worked at the Dee Memorial Hospital as an X-ray technician. He also worked for the U.S. Postal Service and later the family business, Gardiner and Son’s Pest Control. The business now Intermountain Pest Control is owned and operated by his sons Kevin and Paul Rice. His interest were hunting, fishing and sketching.

He married LuJean Swan and they were later divorced. He later married Marion Gardiner Hutchinson on June 1, 1955 and their marriage was later solemnized in the Logan Temple. They worked in the Ogden Temple from April 16, 2003 to February 23, 2008.

He is survived by his wife Marion, sons, Paul Blaine (Pat) Rice Uintah, UT.; Daniel W. (Jane) Hutchinson of LaPaz, Bolivia,; Kevin L. Rice, Roy; daughters: Lorrie R. Osborne, Overton, NV.; Densie R. (Max) Hair, Roy; and Angela (David W.) Reid, Draper. He had 22 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren and one on the way. Also daughter-in-law’s Sharon Hutchinson and Sue Rice.

He was preceded in death by his parents, 2 infant sisters, one brother, Keith E. Rice, grandson, Brandon Paul Rice, son-in-law Michael Osborne.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday January 25, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd, Family will meet with friends on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Ogden City Cemetery, where military honors will be accorded.

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