Rowe Rice

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

SIKESTON — Rowe Pullen Rice entered into this world June 1, 2021. He spent 26 days at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis before coming home to be surrounded in love by his family.  Rowe slipped into the arms of his loving Savior on Sunday, June 27, 2021.

Rowe is missed tremendously by his parents, Cody and Kristin Rice; his precious sister, Keely Kate; his grandparents, Jeff and Kara King, Laura King and Kevin Becker, Rob Rice, and Mia Bedell; great-grandparents, Virginia King, Mark and Mary Crader, Loretta Pullen and Peggy Rice; aunts and uncle, Kaydin King and Ashlyn and Drew Palmer; great-aunts and uncles, Kathy and Ron Carter, Anne and Chris Crader, and Angie and Eric Yant, as well as many cousins.

He was preceded in death by his two loving great-grandpas, Bill King and Jerry Pullen.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 1, 2021, at 11 a.m. in The Dempster Chapel at First United Methodist Church in Sikeston.

Rowe’s earthly body will be laid to rest at the feet of his Great-Grandpa, Jerry Pullen, from whom he got his namesake, in the IOOF Cemetery in Charleston, Missouri.

McMikle Funeral Home of Sikeston is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be shared at http://www.mcmiklefuneralhome.com.


Donations may be made to the Rowe Pullen Rice Memorial Fund at Alliance Bank in Sikeston to help fund an inclusive and accessible playground in Sikeston. Please leave your name with them as they would love to have a plaque listing all the people who loved this baby boy and want to help remember him in this way.

Many are the plans in a person’s heart,

but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21