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 Nancy Ann Rice
July 08, 2005
Nancy Ann Rice, 80, of Lyon Brook, New London, N.H., and Lafontaine, Ontario, Canada, died Friday at New London Hospital.
Born in Montreal on June 8, 1925, daughter of William E.G. and Rebecca Wyse Kynoch, she moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., as a child and was a 1943 graduate of Kent Place School. She also graduated from Smith College in 1948, where she majored in foreign languages.
Mrs. Rice was a model for the Harry Conover Agency in New York City before marrying John Hamilton Rice in 1949. They were divorced in 1976.
While a homemaker in Pittsfield, she volunteered in many community and charitable organizations, including the Junior League, the Girls Clubs of America and the Boston Pops Orchestra at Tanglewood.
She was instrumental in starting a symphony orchestra in Pittsfield and played the violin and painted. After her divorce, she moved to Florida and then to Charlottesville, Va., where she helped care for her aunt. She moved recently to New Hampshire to be near family.
Nearly every summer for the past 75 years, she had summered on Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. She enjoyed history, biography and art, and telling stories about the Canadian Group of Seven, who painted many scenes of Georgian Bay in the early 20th century.
A member of the Addison Beach Property Owners Association, she worked to preserve 50 acres of woodlands around her cottage, which were given by the association to the Nature Conservancy of Canada in the late 1990s.
She leaves two daughters, Heidi Rice Lauridsen of New London and Rebecca Rice of Johnson, Vt., and three grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service in celebration of the life of Nancy Ann Kynoch Rice will be held at St. James-on-the-Line Episcopal Church in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada, in mid-August. She will be interred at the cemetery at St. James, in the plot where her father is buried.
Arrangements are under the direction of Chadwick Funeral Service in New London, N.H., and Penetang Funeral Home in Penetanguishene. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Lake Sunapee Region Visiting Nurse Association, P.O. Box 2209, New London, NH 03257 and to the Smith College Alumnae Fund, 33 Elm St., Northampton, MA 01063.
She was a great spirit, full of joy and fun, and her family and friends will miss her dearly. Her greatest delight was to gather at her cottage in Lafontaine with her family and friends, taking walks along Addison Beach, a stone's throw from her cottage, swimming or wading in the clear, shallow waters of Georgian Bay, and riding her bike along the dirt roads through the woods.
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