Dade City, FL - Elsie M. Fielder Rice, 103, formerly of Hartford, VT and Lebanon, NH, died Tuesday March 8th at Gulfside Hospice in Zephyrhills, FL.
She was born June 23, 1912 in Ferrisburg, VT, one of sixteen children of Francis and Elizabeth (Stebbins) LaForce. She grew up in Ferrisburg and Huntington, VT and was later married to Levi Swain Fielder. They moved to Pittsburgh, PA and Caldwell, NJ while Mr. Fielder worked to serve the war effort during World War II. Elsie was proud to help out with war effort by volunteering with the Red Cross and serving as an Air Raid Warden. After the war the family moved back to Vermont where they purchased the Maple Leaf Farm in Hartford and later the Three Pines Farm on the Quechee-Hartland Rd. Elsie helped Levi on the farm and also worked as a bookkeeper for Williams Laundry and then at Blaktop, both in West Lebanon. After selling the farm due to Mr. Fielder's health, they moved to Burlington for a time before returning to the Upper Valley. Shortly after Mr. Fielder's death in 1973, Elsie began spending winters in Dade City and has wintered there every year since 1975. She was married to Clayton Rice Sr. in 1991 and they spent their summers in Lebanon, NH. Mr. Rice died in 2003.
Elsie was predeceased by her husbands, a son Frederick Wayne Fielder and her fifteen brothers and sisters.
She is survived by a son James Fielder and his wife Kay of Dade City, FL; a daughter Joan Green also of Dade City, FL; seventeen grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
Dade City, FL - Elsie M. Fielder Rice, 103, formerly of Hartford, VT and Lebanon, NH, died Tuesday March 8th at Gulfside Hospice in Zephyrhills, FL.
She was born June 23, 1912 in Ferrisburg, VT, one of sixteen children of Francis and Elizabeth (Stebbins) LaForce. She grew up in Ferrisburg and Huntington, VT and was later married to Levi Swain Fielder. They moved to Pittsburgh, PA and Caldwell, NJ while Mr. Fielder worked to serve the war effort during World War II. Elsie was proud to help out with war effort by volunteering with the Red Cross and serving as an Air Raid Warden. After the war the family moved back to Vermont where they purchased the Maple Leaf Farm in Hartford and later the Three Pines Farm on the Quechee-Hartland Rd. Elsie helped Levi on the farm and also worked as a bookkeeper for Williams Laundry and then at Blaktop, both in West Lebanon. After selling the farm due to Mr. Fielder's health, they moved to Burlington for a time before returning to the Upper Valley. Shortly after Mr. Fielder's death in 1973, Elsie began spending winters in Dade City and has wintered there every year since 1975. She was married to Clayton Rice Sr. in 1991 and they spent their summers in Lebanon, NH. Mr. Rice died in 2003.
Elsie was predeceased by her husbands, a son Frederick Wayne Fielder and her fifteen brothers and sisters.
She is survived by a son James Fielder and his wife Kay of Dade City, FL; a daughter Joan Green also of Dade City, FL; seventeen grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
Family Members
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Anna Josephine LaForce Barnes
1898–1932
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Hazel Isabelle LaForce Lauderbaugh
1900–2000
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Earl F. LaForce
1901–1964
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Floyd Henry Laforce
1903–1973
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Harold William Laforce
1904–1970
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Elizabeth May LaForce Lantman
1906–2007
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Dora Sophronia LaForce Lewis
1908–1987
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Mildred Adele LaForce Growney
1909–1998
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Nina Katherine LaForce Dasey
1911–1998
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Ethel Margaret LaForce
1914–1915
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Edward Peter LaForce
1915–1998
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Marion Hilda LaForce Olson
1917–1979
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Eleanor Estelle LaForce Hicks
1919–1969
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Robert Clement Laforce
1921–2005
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Constance Jante LaForce Blose
1925–1982
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