WANDA RICE

August 09, 2016

STOCKTON-Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Bland-Brumback Funeral Home in Stockton for Wanda Jewell Rice, 87, Stockton, who died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Lamar.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, at the funeral home.

Survivors include a son, Tom Mechsner, Springfield; two daughters, Cheryl Fanning and husband Jim, Lake Ozark and Alicia Chism and husband Rick, Stockton; grandchildren, Jim Hallam and wife Lisa, Amy Langevin and husband Travis, Mark Fanning and wife Beth and Blair Stockton and husband Loyd; great-grandchildren, Adam Hallam, Holly Hallam, Haley Langevin, Evan Langevin, Kellen Fanning, Claire Fanning, Shea Fanning, Paul Stockton, Hunter Svoboda and Olivia Svoboda; two sisters, Jo Ann Danner and Sue Harris; one brother, Fred Rice and wife Cindy and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

She was preceded in death by a brother, C.J. Rice; three sisters, Gladys Clark, Mabel Trisca and Betty Willis and a daughter-in-law, Kathy Mechsner.

Mrs. Rice was born Oct. 7, 1928, in Paden, Okla., to Clarence and Viola (James) Rice. The Rice family made their home and reared their family in Fayetteville, Ark. In October of 1944 she met the love of her life, Paul Mechsner. After a brief courtship they were married Oct. 30, 1944, in Fayetteville, Ark. After living in Nebraska the first few years of their marriage, they moved to the farm just south of Lamar and lived in the Lamar area for more than 30 years before moving to Stockton in 1983. He preceded her in death in 1992 and she married a longtime acquaintance, John Clark, in 1998. He died in 2003.

She was a homemaker, as well as working outside the home. She was employed at Big Smith for more than 25 years. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She was selfless when it came to her family.



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