Deborah Rice succumbs to cancer at 67

DEBORAH PACTOR GENTCHER RICE, a housewife and mother, died at her Slidell home on Sat., March 7, 2015, following a ten-year battle with cancer. She was 67 years old.

She is survived by her husband, William H. Rice, Sr.; her children Tammy Lynn Shields-Rice (Mona), Lisa Sands, William H. “B.J.” Rice, Jr. (Kasey), and Craig R. Rice (Christina); sisters Johanna Rau, Marlene Lew (Morris), Leeba Freedman (Arthur) and Sander Pactor (Carol) and two grandchildren.

A graveside service was held on Monday, March 9, 2015 in the Jewish Burial Rites Cemetery, 4321 Frenchman St.,  at 1:30 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are preferred to the Ochsner Cancer Fund. Lake Lawn Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.