Jim Rice, age 79, died February 15, 2015 in Temple, Texas. Graveside services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Friday, February 20, 2015 at Restland Cemetery in Olney, Texas with Scotte Clark, minister of the Hamilton Street Church of Christ, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Lunn Funeral Home of Olney.

Jim was born on October 31, 1935 in Byth, California to the late Harold Walter Rice and Jewel Lee (McArthur) Rice. He lived in Slaton, Texas from 1993 until 2012. He moved to Temple in 2012. Jim was a truck driver and a Baptist.