Elbert Bice
December 1, 1921 - January 17, 2000

Elbert Bice WINFIELD - Elbert Bice, 78, of Mesa, Ariz., formerly of Winfield, died Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, at his home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Honts Funeral Home. Organist will be Gladys Davis and vocalist will be Rose Mary Schneider. Pallbearers will be Keith Loyd, Virgil Chapman, Donald Coon, Randy Beauchamp, Gabriel Kettler, Scot Bice. Honorary bearers will be Stan Schneider, Gilbert Crawford, Roland Underwood, Warren Cockayne, Maynard Hill, Roger Davis, R. L. Chrisinger, Billy Kellogg. A Masonic service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Honts Funeral Home, where family will meet friends following the service until 4 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association. Mr. Bice was born Dec. 1, 1921, east of Winfield, the son of Thomas Henry and Cora Inez Springsteen Bice. He married Dorothy Danner TeStrake on June 2, 1956, in Muscatine. He played softball in country leagues following World War II. Served on the Winfield Coop Elevator Board and the Winfield-Mount Union School as board director. He was a 50 year member of the Good Faith Masonic Lodge No. 235 of Winfield and the Winfield United Methodist Church and past board member. He farmed the family farm east of Winfield before his retirement in 1979 and then moved to Arizona. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy of Mesa, Ariz.; a son, Thomas Mark Bice and his wife, Erin; a step son, John TeStrake and his wife, Phyllis; a step daughter, Mary Jo Beauchamp and her husband, Lynn; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Thelma Coon; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents.

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