Sara MacFarlane-Rice:  

Friends and Classmates of Sara MacFarlane. This is Sara husband Randy writing this on behalf of Sara. You may or not have heard, Sara passed away tragically while ridding her horse on July 15, 2008. I include this because everyone has asked, but something happened while she was out ridding on the trails at Proud Lake State Park with her horse, she was unseated and came off her horse and was instantly killed. She left behind 2 boys that she loved (Lee 4/6/1997 and Keving 5/9/1999) and her husband of 15 yrs who absolutely adored her and gave her everything she ever wanted and then some. No was not in my vocabulary. Since graduating school, Sara tried several different careers (photography, banking) and several different locations (Vale, CO and Connecticut ) before attending Michigan State University and settling on Veterinary Medicine (which is where she met me). She graduate in 1992 with a degree in Veterinary Medical Technology and moved to the Detroit area where she worked in a veterinary clinic for years. (Time to be romantic here¿) Valentines¿ day 1993 on Silver Beach, down on one knee, Sara agreed to be my wife (yes I did get permission from her father and mother before asking for her hand in marriage). We where married 1 year later Valentines¿ weekend at St Joseph Catholic Church and had our reception at the Landmark (2 weeks before it burned down). We lived in South Lyon, MI (far outskirts Northwest of the Detroit Metro Area) in a little 3 bedroom house with no basement and no garage. In 1995, Sara took over as the office manager of an Equine Veterinary Hospital (yes she had horse in the early days, too many to name but she finally settled on a horse, ELMO, who is still with us, retired living in the back yard). In 1997, she gave birth to her first son, LEE JAMES on April 7th. A little blue eyed, blond hair spitting image of his mother. In 1999, Mother¿s day, she gave birth to her second son KEVIN MICHEAL (unfortunately, this one is the spitting image of me¿.). She continued to run the practice and raise the 2 boys until 2001 when the practice was sold. At this time, her wandering spirit craved for a change and Sara went to school again first to learn to be a Cosmetologist and then a few years later as a Real Estate Appraiser. But, in all that time, she never lost her love of animals and she continued to work part time somewhere at a Vete...Expand for more