James L. Rice, 1938-2011; memorial Sat. Oct. 1

[Katya Hokanson]

Laura Anderson would like to announce the following; please pass it on to anyone who may wish to attend the memorial.

University of Oregon Emeritus Professor Jim Rice, one of the world's leading specialists on Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky, passed away in River Bend Hospital, Springfield OR, Friday morning, September 23, at about 5:45am. He suffered a cardiac arrest the previous Sunday.  Defying all odds (being the cantankerous one, as ever), he came out of his post-resuscitation coma, but despite appreciating a joke and talking a little, did not recover.  One of his last conversations with an old colleague was on the topic of Larry McMurtry’s vision of Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen.

There will be a memorial gathering on Saturday, October 1, 2011, at 1pm, at the Poole-Larsen Funeral Home, at the corner of 11th and Charnelton St. in Eugene OR.

Jim was a brilliant, charming, funny and often-frustrating man, always ready with an anecdote appropriate, or not, for the occasion.

He will be missed by his family and friends.

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