Sandie Rice, Mitchell
Sandra Lee “Sandie” Rice, 70, Mitchell, died Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital, Mitchell, due to complications of multiple sclerosis. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Mitchell Wesleyan Church. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Will Funeral Chapel, Mitchell.
Sandra Lee “Sandie” Rice, 70, Mitchell, died Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital, Mitchell, due to complications of multiple sclerosis.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Mitchell Wesleyan Church. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Will Funeral Chapel, Mitchell.
She was born on Sept. 11, 1940, in Huron to Don and Billie Solum.
At age 3, she moved with her family to Mitchell, where she lived the rest of her life.
She attended Mitchell schools and graduated in 1958. She attended Augustana College, Sioux Falls; University of South Dakota, Vermillion; and Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, graduating summa cum laude from DWU in 1961.
On June 28, 1959, she married Warren Rice at First Lutheran Church, Mitchell.
She worked in secretarial and bookkeeping positions.
In 1973, she began working at Worthing’s Western Wear, doing sales and alterations and eventually becoming office manager until she retired in December 1994.
She was a member of Mitchell Community Orchestra, Friends of the Middle Border Community Chorus, treasurer of American Association of University Women, treasurer for the PEO Chapter and PEO Sisterhood Chapter BK.
She attended Mitchell Wesleyan Church.
She is survived by her three children: Stephanie Schroeder and husband Clinton, Spencer; Renee Cundy and Monte, both of Mitchell; 10 grandchildren; a sister, Dawn Hopkins and husband Harvey, Casa Grande, Ariz.; a brother-in-law, Gary Alferness, Fridley, Minn.; and a sister-in-law, Mary Solum, Bellingham, Wash.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother and a sister.
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