Services for Debbie Deal Rice, of Brookhaven, are 4 p.m. Friday,June 3 at Faith Presbyterian Church with burial in RiverwoodMemorial Park.

Visitation is Friday from 2:30-3:30 p.m. at Riverwood FamilyFuneral Service.

Mrs. Rice, 48, died June 1, 2005, at her residence. She was bornin Blytheville, Ark., on July 23, 1956, to Roy Deal and Edna JonesDeal.

She was a former teacher in the Brookhaven Public School systemand at Brookhaven Academy. She was currently assisting her husbandwith the family electrical business. She was a member of FaithPresbyterian Church. She will be remembered as a loving wife,mother, grandmother, daughter and friend.

Survivors are her parents, Roy and Edna Deal, of Baton Rouge,formerly of Brookhaven; her husband, Doyle Rice, of Brookhaven; herdaughters, Ary Rice Mize, of Brookhaven, and Leah Rice, of Biloxi;her sister, Beverly Reed, of Baton Rouge; and her granddaughter,Arly Ann Mize, of Brookhaven.