Funeral services were held Thursday, May 29, at Willow Lake for Mrs. Warren Grice. Dr. J. E. Sammons, the Rev. Swoll Sawyer and the Rev. Charles Evans officiated and burial was in the Marshallville Cemetery.
The former Miss Clara Rumph Grice was the widow of the late Judge Warren Grice, Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court at the time of his death in 1945. She was the daughter of Samuel Henry Rumph, originator of the Elberta peach, and Mrs. Clara Elberta Moore Rumph, for whom the peach was named. She was born at Willow Lake and was married there in the place, which has been in the family more than 125 years, on July 14, 1875. She attended Wesleyan College where she studied art. She had lived with her family in Macon and Atlanta and Hawkinsville. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Marshallville Garden Club and of the D.A.R. She died at a Macon Hospital Wednesday morning.
~ Citizens & Georgian, Montezuma, GA, 5 June 1952
Funeral services were held Thursday, May 29, at Willow Lake for Mrs. Warren Grice. Dr. J. E. Sammons, the Rev. Swoll Sawyer and the Rev. Charles Evans officiated and burial was in the Marshallville Cemetery.
The former Miss Clara Rumph Grice was the widow of the late Judge Warren Grice, Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court at the time of his death in 1945. She was the daughter of Samuel Henry Rumph, originator of the Elberta peach, and Mrs. Clara Elberta Moore Rumph, for whom the peach was named. She was born at Willow Lake and was married there in the place, which has been in the family more than 125 years, on July 14, 1875. She attended Wesleyan College where she studied art. She had lived with her family in Macon and Atlanta and Hawkinsville. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Marshallville Garden Club and of the D.A.R. She died at a Macon Hospital Wednesday morning.
~ Citizens & Georgian, Montezuma, GA, 5 June 1952
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