Amanda Lourine Rice

Funeral services for Mrs. Amanda Lourine Rice, 85 of Cookeville, will be held Wednesday, January 3rd at 11:00 a.m. at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Rev. Dow Allen and Rev. Tex Boles will officiate. Interment will follow in Boiling Springs Cemetery. Mrs. Rice's family will receive friends Tuesday from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and again Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Rice died peacefully Saturday, December 30, 2017 in Bethesda Health Care Center surrounded by her family. She was born July 6, 1932 in Van Buren County, Tennessee to the late Horace and Mary Elizabeth Moss Bishop. Lourine worked at Sutton's Shirt Factory in Sparta. She was a loving mother and grandmother. She loved to sew and enjoyed playing cards. She was of the Baptist faith. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 30 years, George "William" Rice; son, Glenn Goines, sisters, Ruby Bishop and Pauline Delong; brothers, David Bishop, Robert Bishop, Charles Bishop, and by a half-brother, Edgar Holman. She is survived by daughter, Debbie Derr and husband Scott of Cookeville; son, Rocky Goines and wife Wilda of Quebeck, TN; grandchildren, Holly Derr, Shaun (Katie) Presley, Matthew Presley, Daniel Goines, Rocky Goines, Jr., Randy Maddux, Logan Maddux, Kiya Simmons; and by great grandson, Titus Presley. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements (931) 526-6111. You may share your thoughts and memories at www.hhhfunerals.com.