Deceased Name: Pauline Francis "Polly" Rice Prentice
June 16, 2005
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
A service will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday at Dalton-Holmes Funeral Chapel for Pauline Francis "Polly" Rice Prentice, 86, Durant, who died Monday, June 13, 2005, at Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma. Rev. Jacob Toews will officiate.
She was born Monday, October 14, 1918, in Kemp to James Porter Rice and Melissa Belle Sweeney.
She married P. L. "Coon" Prentice September 14, 1940, in Durant.
She was a clerk and floor manager for Woolworth's for 27 years and a manager for Ideal Bakery.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brothers, Harvey Earl, James William, Fred Huel and Archie Kier and sisters, Thelma Sally Corbin and Sybil Rice.
She is survived by her son, Joe Don Prentice and wife Dottie of Durant; granddaughter, Jodi Lyn Waldo and husband R.J. of Durant; great-granddaughter Sabrina Kay Waldo of Durant; sister, Rosalee Houk of Durant; step-granddaughters, Mona Whitt and husband Tony of Cartwright, Angie Ellis and husband Gary of Muskogee, Joy Morton and husband Bobby of Durant; step-grandson Roy Jones of Durant and eight step-great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with Bill Corbin, Jim Corbin, R.J. Waldo, Roy Jones, Bobby Morton and Austin Garrison serving as pallbearers.
Family hour will be from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Condolences may be sent to the family at dhfh@communicomm.com.
Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.