John R. Rice was an aggressive and inveterate player of games -- especially a version of the Rook card game called "One High" and a version of Dominoes called "42", which was played in domino parlors in small towns in Texas. This card table was the scene of many a family bloodbath.

Early every morning for decades, John R. and Lloys sat at this table and prayed for hundreds of people around the world by name. The amount of cholesterol consumed at this table would have killed a hundred horses, but didn't seem to do much damage to Lloys or John R. Rice, both of whom lived to a respectable old age.