Obituary

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This is the obituary read at the memorial.

Gabriel Ray Alan Rice died December 21, 2006 in Bishop, California. He was born in Kahuku, Hawaii on February 24, 1979. Gabriel graduated from Homer High School in Homer, Alaska in 1997. He attended Christian Life College in Stockton, California; the University of Alaska; and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical School in Oakland, California. He was a commercial fisherman and an accomplished pilot. Gabriel was an adventurous traveler, surfer, snowboarder, and an avid outdoorsman. He is survived by his parents, Patrick and Lynn Rice, his younger siblings Isaac and Hannah, Uncle Alan Rice, Eric Rice, James Rice, Timothy Rice and Aunts Susie Rice and Janet Henderson, Aunt Joan McWhirter and Cousins Anna and Emma, his great uncle Robert Maurer and great aunt Constance Maurer of Woodhaven, Queens, New York. He was buried December 28, 2006 at Lutheran Memorial Cemetery in Queens, New York.