Saturday, November 23, 2019

Obituary - Brice Edward Roddy

A Celebration of Life for Brice Edward Roddy will be 7PM Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at Vansant-Mills Funeral Chapel, Clinton, MO. Visitation will be 6-7 PM prior to service. 

Memorial contributions may be made to C.A.R.E.(Clinton Animal Rescue Endeavor) and can be left in care of funeral home. Fond memories and condolences may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Brice Edward Roddy was born March 18, 1965 in Clinton, Missouri. He was the son of Woodson Roddy and Geraldine Simmons Roddy. Brice was a bicycle enthusiast, riding, collecting, repairing and restoring numerous bicycles. Brice could identify old bicycles traveling down the road at 70 miles per hour in a vehicle.

Brice graduated from the Clinton High School in 1984. Brice moved to Missoula, Montana in 1985 to join his brother Kent and lived there until 1988. Brice worked various jobs in Montana, and knew the bicycle community there as well. He also worked in Glacier National Park the summer of 1987. Brice returned to Coffeyville, KS. where he lived with his maternal Grandparents, Clifford and Ola Simmons. There he worked at Acme Foundry. Later Brice returned to Clinton and worked at Rival Manufacturing for 4 years and other various jobs in the 1980's and 1990's.

Brice lived in Butler, MO., Nevada, MO., Springfield, MO., Kansas City, MO., and finally Sedalia, MO. for many years. Brice was a bicycle icon in Sedalia, MO. Anyone with any knowledge or interest in bicycles undoubtedly met him. The same is true here in Clinton, where Leo Huff at the local Fire Department, Sam Baugh at the Clinton Mower Shop. Skip Buckley and Charlie Dixon knew Brice and his ways. Bicycle collectors and enthusiast knew Brice as well, such as James Allen of Springfield, MO. at the Pedaler's Museum, James Leemhuis of Sedalia and many others. Brice will be missed and his vast knowledge of bicycles.

Brice was preceded in death by his father. Surviving is his mother Geraldine; two brothers, Kent and Shawn; and two nephews, Nolan and Weston.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton, Missouri.



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