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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 16. 1933
1 South Mourns Death
of Captain Rice
Avgusta Officially Pays Tri
bute to His Memory
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j. the Rt. Rev. Msgr., James A. Kane,
nastor of St Mary s-on-The-Hill, the
/ery Rev. Boniface Bauer. O- S. B.,
prior of the Benedictine Community
' and pastor of Sacred Heart Church.
| Savannah, the Rev. James Conlin of
j the Cathedral, Savannah, the Very
Rev. Edward P. McGrath. S. M.. pas
tor, and the Rev. Michael Larkin, S.
M., of Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta;
the Rev. James E. King, pastor, St.
Joseph's Church. Athens; the Rev. F.
J Clarkson, S. J.. pastor, St- Joseph’s
Church, Macon; the Rev. A. J. Laube,
S. M. A., pastor and the Rev. A.
Wassler, S. M. A.. Immaculate Con
ception Church, Augusta; the Rev.
P. I. Marnane, S- J., Sacred Heart
Church, Augusta; the Rev. George
Dietz, pastor, Mary, Help of Chris
tians Church, Aiken S. C. and the
Rev. Sebastian Doris O. S. B., of Bel
mont Abbey, North Carolina.
Captain Rice’s grandsons served the
funeral Mass. Members of Patrick
Walsh Council, Knights of Columbus,
of which Captain Rice was grand
knight when it was first organized,
nearly a third of a century ago, and
in which he was always active, form
ed an escort of honor. The children
of Sacred Heart School attended the
Mass in a body; the various religious
orders of Augusta, the Sisters of
Mercy, the Sisters of St. Joseph and
the Franciscan Sisters, were repre
sented by delegations. Father Cronin
officiated at the interment at Mag-
r nolia Cemetery.
J J. Haverty, K- S. G.. Atlanta, first
vice-president of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia; Thomas
Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., Savannah,
past president and a member of the
publicity committee, E. A. Sheridan
and Wm. H. Mitchell, members of the
publicity committee, and Martin J.
Callagahan, president of the local
branch, Macon and John B. Mc-
Callum, Atlanta recording secretary,
were among the officials of the asso
ciation from outside Augusta present
at the funeral.
Francis J. Heazel. Asheville, N. C..
n member of the Supreme Board of
.he Knights of Columbus, represent-
d the Supreme Council. Col. M. J.
O’Leary, Savannah. A. A- Baumstark,
Atlanta, and J. Coleman Dempsey,
Augusta, were among the past state
deputies for Georgia present in add
ition to Messrs. Walsh, McCallum
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and Mitchell. A. A. Benedetto, grand
knight, and J. J. McCreary, past
grand knight, were members of the
Macon delegation.
Honorary pallbearers were: J. J.
Haverty, K. S. G.; A. A. Baumstark.
Atlanta; Thomas F. Walsh, Col. T. J.
O’Leary, Savannah; Francis J
Heazel, Asheville; E. A. Sheridan, A.
A. Benedetto, John McCreary, W. H.
Mitchell, Martin J. Callahan, Ma
con, C. H. Phinizy, G. Worth An
drews. T. S. Gray, W. J. Mulherin, A.
B. von Kamp, James M. Hull, Jr., I.
Clarence Levy- T. M. Heffernan,
Jerry McAuliffe, Judge A. L. Frank
lin, J. H. Flythe, John P Mulherin,
Dr. W. A. Mulherin, G. R. Coffin. Dr.
R. L. Henry. Charles S. Bohler,
George Blanchard, Alfred M. Battey,
Dr. V. B. Barbot Coleman Dempsey
and T. P- Doris, Augsuta.
The active pallbearers were Rich
ard Reid, R. B Arthur, E. J. O’Con
nor. Dr. F. . Mulherin, Victor Mark-
waiter and Thomas Kearney.
Surviving Captain Rice are his
widow, who was Miss Elizabeth Car-
son, of Savannah; two daughters,
Miss Anna M. Rice and Mrs. James
B. Mulherin: a son, P. H. Rice, Jr.; a
sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Rice O’Connor;
several grandchildren and a number
of nieces and nephews, all of Au
gusta.
Patrick Hugh Rice was bom in
Augusta May 14, 1857, the son of Mr.
and Mrs- Matthew Rice, pioneer resi
dents of this city. His earliest recol
lections were connected with the War
Between the States, and one of his
most vivid memories was a trip he
took with his father by carriage to
Savannah in the days of the war.
Savannah was then in the hands of
the Federals.
It was in Augusta that he was
educated, and his entire life was spent
here. After leaving school his ability
and energy soon won him recogni
tion, and when quite young he be
came a member of the firm of Mul
herin, Rice & Co., wholesale and re
tail shoe merchants; after the death
of Mr- Mulherin he headed the firm
of Rice & O’Connor Shoe Co., unt;l
his retirement from business several
years ago. He was then the oldest
merchant in point of service on Broad
Street, and the oldest buyer in the
shoe markets of the country; he had
been going to Boston for over a half
century to buy shoes. On one of his
first trips he stopped off at Phila
delphia to see the Centennial Ex
position, in 1876. marking the cen
tennial of the v foundation of the
republic.
Captain Rice was in his day and
over a period of two generations one
of the most active of Augustans. He
was in the forefront of every move
ment for the advancement of the
city, but he never offered for any
public office. He was president of
the Augusta Merchants’ Association,
vice-president of the Savannah Val
ley Fair Association, and a director
in several business and financial
enterprises. Becoming acquainted
with the Rotary Club movement in
his travels in the North and East
during his years as president of the
Merchants' Association, he urged its
organization here to supplement the
efforts of the Merchants’ Association,
and he was a leading member for
many years until his retirement.
He also became acquainted with
the Knights of Columbus during his
visits outside the South, and was a
leading factor in the organization of
the order in this section, serving as
the first grand knight of Patrick
Walsh Council. He served the order
as state deputy, master of the Fourth
Degree for the Carolinas. Georgia and
Florida, and was for nine years one
of the fifteen members of the su
preme board of directors. His out
standing work in the Knights of Co
lumbus was done at Camp Hancock
during the war, he being then grand
knight of the local council.
In his younger years Captain Rice
was an ardent temperance worker,
and for many years he was the
moving spirit in the Sacred Heart Ca
dets, a local temperance society,
which included in its membership
many young men. Catholic and
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in making the announcement, add that
Dr. Sheen’s coming series of addresses
will cover 15 weeks, terminating Eas
ter Sunday.
This year’s series, it was announced,
will trace the life of our Lord, be
ginning on Christmas Eve with the
event of the Nativity. The title of
the opening address will be ‘‘The In
finity of Littleness.”
Protestant, who are now leaders in
the business and professional life of
the community. He has likewise been
active in the charity work of the St-
Vincent de Paul Society, and was at
the time of his death vice-president
of St. Mary’s Home, Savannah, the
diocesan home for girls.
It is for his work in connection
with the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia that Captain Rice is
best known outside Augusta,, and
there are few Catholic laymen in the
United States not in public life bet
ter known than he. Feeling that the
animosity toward Catholics in many
quarters years ago was due to mis
information, he started a campaign
of literature distribution through the
Knights of Columbus of Georgia to
dissipate the misinformation by a
statement of facts on matters on
which the Catholic position was not
understood. Out of this work grew
the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, now internationally known.
One of the most active factors in its
organization, he was president from
1919 until the recent convention in
Macon, and he was there, on his re
tirement from office, elected presi
dent-emeritus for life. He still was
actively interested in the work and
the day before he died he spent sev
eral hours in the office of the Lay
man’s Association.
Nearly eleven years ago. in recog
nition of his efforts for Catholic ac
tivities, Captain Rice was made a
Knight Commander of St. Gregory,
Military Class, by Pope Pius XI. the
present Pope. This honor was held
by only one other American, like-
vise a Georgian, Admiral Wm. S.
Benson. U. S. N., commander of the
Naval Forces of the nation during
the World War. and also an official
of the Laymen’s Association. The
Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes. D. D..
Biship of Savannah, officiated at the
ceremony. at which the honor was
formallv conferred, and the sermon
was delivered by the Very Rev. E.
J Cummings, S. J., then president of
Loyola University, New Orleans.
Telegrams of sympathy on Captain
Rice’s death were received from every
part of the nation. Bishop Keyes of
Savannah, whe was ill, designated
the Very Rev. Msgr. Jos. F. Ctoke,
chancellor of the Diocese of Savan
nah. to represent him and the d'oeese
of the funeral Mass, Francis J.
Heazel, Asheville, a member of the
supreme board of directors of the
Knights of Columbus, represented
the national council of the Knights of
Columbus. Officials of the Catholic
Laymen's Association of Georgia
came from several cities to attend the
funeral.
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A. A. Baumstark, Atlanta, Past State Deputy
Jos. I. Oberst, Atlanta, State Secretary
James F. Glass, Savannah, State Advocate
Jos. F. O’Brien, Brunswick, State Treasurer
John T. Buckley, Augusta, State Worden
Rev. Thomas A. Brennan. Albany. State Chaplain
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Macon Council, No. 925
John E. Harrison, Grand
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