Daily News | Carol B. Rice, retired deputy commissioner for Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, has died at 80
, member of the Warrington Township Park and Recreation Board, and longtime community advocate, died Saturday, June 17, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at VITAS hospice at Nazareth Hospital.
She volunteered on the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Commission after it was formed in 2009 by Mayor Michael Nutter. Later this year, city officials are expected to rename the Lansdowne Avenue playground the Charles Baker and Carol Baker Rice Playground. “That,” said her husband, John Rice III, “will be a tremendous tribute to her.”for a Parks and Recreation Commission newsletter, was scheduling bimonthly meetings with residents who wanted to get involved with the park system.
Her rec center programs included sessions on art, poetry, dance, boxing, and ice hockey, and at one point in the 1990s featured the country’s largest indoor soccer program with 9,000 players. Later, after she retired and moved to Warrington Township in 2000, Mrs. Rice served as chairman and vice chairman of the Warrington Township Park and Recreation Board.Carol Ann Baker was born April 11, 1943, in Philadelphia.
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