Glenna D. Rice

ROXBURY - Glenna Daisy Rice, 96, died Thursday, July 30, 2015, at the Weeks Medical Center in Lancaster, New Hampshire. She was born May 17, 1919, in Fletcher, the daughter of Glenn and Daisy (Sargent) Tillotson. She graduated from Goddard Seminary in Barre, class of 1937.

She had been married to Stanley Hutchins. On Oct. 20, 1947, she married Francis Frank Rice in East Barre. Frank predeceased her in 1990.

Glenna worked in machine shops during World War II in Springfield, later studying to become a nurse. In 1952 she was registered by waiver to practice as an LPN. She worked for Mayo Memorial Hospital on Vine Street, Northfield, and at various times after this facility was converted to a nursing home. She owned and operated Rices Rest Home in Roxbury for 25 years. In 1974, she moved to Barre to care for her aging parents.

Glenna and her daughter in-law, Jean, had faithfully written to each other every week for the past 56 years. She had a strong Christian faith and was a caregiver throughout her entire life, always treating others with compassion and dignity.

Survivors include her daughter, Shirley (Rice) Tetreault and husband, Mark, of Whitefield, New Hampshire; daughter in-law Jean Hutchins, of Bellevue, Washington; three grandsons, John and Christopher Hutchins and Matthew Tetreault; three great-grandchildren; several cousins, nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her sister, Shirley Estona; brother Wayne Tillotson; and her son, Glendon C. Hutchins.

A graveside service will be conducted Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. in the Roxbury Cemetery on Route 12A in Roxbury. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Chop Point Camp (a place dear to her heart), 420 Chopps Point Road, Woolwich, ME 04579. Kingston Funeral Home in Northfield is assisting with the arrangements.