March 25, 1997

WILLIAM RIFE

ULLIN, Ill. -- Graveside service for William Rife of Ullin will be held at 1 p.m. today at St. John's Cemetery in Dongola, with the Rev. William Gholson officiating. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Ullin after 11 a.m. Rife, 87, died Sunday, March 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Graveside service for William Rife of Ullin will be held at 1 p.m. today at St. John's Cemetery in Dongola, with the Rev. William Gholson officiating.

Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Ullin after 11 a.m.

Rife, 87, died Sunday, March 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

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He was born Sept. 13, 1909, in Pulaski, son of George W. and Lily Mae Kiefer Rife. He and Marion Fox were married Sept. 7, 1940. She died July 12, 1989.

A graduate of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, he retired as a realtor in Long Beach, Calif.

Survivors include two nieces, Judy Atherton of Ullin, Louise Allen of Pulaski; and a nephew, Lee Rife of Rochester.

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