Cynthia Rice Frease

Mrs. Frease died Sunday, April 13, 2003, in Greeley.

She was born Aug. 27, 1918, in Lawrence, the daughter of M. E. Rice and Hazel Hope MacGregor. She grew up in Lawrence and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1935. She graduated from Kansas University in 1939 and received her master of arts degree in English from the University of Minnesota in 1940. She then received a fellowship in English at University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she completed the course work for a doctorate in English. She earned a doctorate in education from University of Northern Colorado in 1961 and did postdoctoral work in London in 1972. She had lived primarily in Greeley since 1949.

Mrs. Frease taught high school for a year in Eureka and three years in Modesto, Calif., during World War II. She also taught at Temple University in Philadelphia for three years, Greeley High School from 1953 to 1954 and 1955 to 1959, UCLA from 1954 to 1955, University of Maryland in Seoul, South Korea, from 1961 to 1962, and University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1970. She retired as a professor of English and women’s studies from University of Northern Colorado in 1984. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, chapter FZ of PEO, AAUW, Delta Kappa Gamma, American Society of 18th Century Studies, Alpha Delta Kappa and First Congregational Church, where she served a year as treasurer of the Women’s Society, several years on the church cabinet and a year as church moderator.

She married Forrest Frease on July 13, 1946. He died in June 1999.

Survivors include a son, Michael Frease, Denver.

The family suggests memorials to the Forrest W. and Cynthia R. Frease Scholarship in English, the Frease-Colwell Student in Honors Award or the church, sent in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 702 13th St., Greeley, Colo. 80631.