RICE, Nancy

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona December 17, 1970 A 21-year-old Winkleman, Arizona, woman, mother of two small children, died in Community Hospital of multiple injuries two hours after a one car automobile accident four miles east of town last Wednesday afternoon at 2:20 p.m. The victim, Mrs. Nancy Rice, was driving west on Highway 60 when she lost control of her small foreign-made station wagon, according to Highway patrolman John Hershey who, with Patrolman Bob Schulte, investigated the accident. It appears, the officers said, that Mrs. Rice was in the process of passing an unidentified vehicle when she realized she couldn’t make it and in cutting in her car traveled 242 feet along the median strip, returned to the highway and slid broadside, then overturned three and three-quarters time. She was pinned under the car. Taken to the hospital here along with the mother was 5 year-old Robert Rice, believed to be suffering from a skull fracture. There other son, Timmy, 2; Mrs. Rice’s 13-year-old brother Richard Prosser and Billy Lee Nichols, all of Winkelman, suffered only minor injuries which did not require hospitalization. It was the first highway fatality patrol investigation for Patrolman Schulte who joined the patrol only recently after several years as a Deputy Sheriff in the Wickenburg sheriff’s office. He has been assigned to the Kearney areas but has not been able to find living quarters for his family in that southern Arizona town.