Daughter of author Anne Rice and poet Stan Rice.
It was Michelle's tragic death of leukemia which inspired both of her parents to write.∼She was moved to the Rice family Mausoleum after her father's death. Anne was so moved to receive this photograph today, and she's asked us to share it with all of you. A close family friend placed these flowers on the Rice family mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery outside New Orleans in honor of Michele Rice's birthday. Anne's beloved daughter was taken from us at the age of six by a terrible form of leukemia. She would have been fifty-five years old today, but as many of us know, she lives on as the inspiration for the child vampire Claudia in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. For years Michele lay in an unmarked grave in a Northern California cemetery, the victim of the financial strain that fell upon the Anne and Stan in the wake of Michele's long illness and heartbreaking death. Some years back her remains were relocated to the Rice family mausoleum outside New Orleans, seen here, that was constructed a year after the passing of Anne's husband, Stan. His remains are here as well. One of Michele's favorite songs was "Free The People" by Delaney and Bonnie, which we've shared in the comments below. (Posted by Anne's Team)Michele resembled her mother and inherited Anne's dark eyes, but had her father's light hair. Christopher looks almost exactly like his father, author, Stan Rice. The two siblings would never know one another since Michele died years before Christopher was born.∼The first child and only daughter of novelist Anne Rice and poet/painter Stan Rice. Born with her father's blonde hair and her mother's brown eyes, she was a very bright and vivacious person whom family and friends adored. Her health was considered as normal as that of any other child until late one summer afternoon in 1970 when she came home early from playing with her friends and told her mother that she was "too tired to play." Knowing that something was wrong, but hoping it was just a typical childhood sickness, her mother took her to the doctor who sensed something more malignant was occurring. Blood tests were administered and she was checked into Stanford Children's Hospital in Berkeley, California. The results revealed that she possessed acute granuleucytic leukemia, a strain of the disease in which the chances of survival were next to none. The following two years were filled with a blurred series of hospital stays during which the leukemia rapidly spread despite chemotherapy treatments. A little before her 6th birthday, she passed away.
Cause of death: Acute granuleucytic leukemia
It was Michelle's tragic death of leukemia which inspired both of her parents to write.∼She was moved to the Rice family Mausoleum after her father's death. Anne was so moved to receive this photograph today, and she's asked us to share it with all of you. A close family friend placed these flowers on the Rice family mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery outside New Orleans in honor of Michele Rice's birthday. Anne's beloved daughter was taken from us at the age of six by a terrible form of leukemia. She would have been fifty-five years old today, but as many of us know, she lives on as the inspiration for the child vampire Claudia in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. For years Michele lay in an unmarked grave in a Northern California cemetery, the victim of the financial strain that fell upon the Anne and Stan in the wake of Michele's long illness and heartbreaking death. Some years back her remains were relocated to the Rice family mausoleum outside New Orleans, seen here, that was constructed a year after the passing of Anne's husband, Stan. His remains are here as well. One of Michele's favorite songs was "Free The People" by Delaney and Bonnie, which we've shared in the comments below. (Posted by Anne's Team)Michele resembled her mother and inherited Anne's dark eyes, but had her father's light hair. Christopher looks almost exactly like his father, author, Stan Rice. The two siblings would never know one another since Michele died years before Christopher was born.∼The first child and only daughter of novelist Anne Rice and poet/painter Stan Rice. Born with her father's blonde hair and her mother's brown eyes, she was a very bright and vivacious person whom family and friends adored. Her health was considered as normal as that of any other child until late one summer afternoon in 1970 when she came home early from playing with her friends and told her mother that she was "too tired to play." Knowing that something was wrong, but hoping it was just a typical childhood sickness, her mother took her to the doctor who sensed something more malignant was occurring. Blood tests were administered and she was checked into Stanford Children's Hospital in Berkeley, California. The results revealed that she possessed acute granuleucytic leukemia, a strain of the disease in which the chances of survival were next to none. The following two years were filled with a blurred series of hospital stays during which the leukemia rapidly spread despite chemotherapy treatments. A little before her 6th birthday, she passed away.
Cause of death: Acute granuleucytic leukemia
Daughter of author Anne Rice and poet Stan Rice.
It was Michelle's tragic death of leukemia which inspired both of her parents to write.∼She was moved to the Rice family Mausoleum after her father's death. Anne was so moved to receive this photograph today, and she's asked us to share it with all of you. A close family friend placed these flowers on the Rice family mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery outside New Orleans in honor of Michele Rice's birthday. Anne's beloved daughter was taken from us at the age of six by a terrible form of leukemia. She would have been fifty-five years old today, but as many of us know, she lives on as the inspiration for the child vampire Claudia in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. For years Michele lay in an unmarked grave in a Northern California cemetery, the victim of the financial strain that fell upon the Anne and Stan in the wake of Michele's long illness and heartbreaking death. Some years back her remains were relocated to the Rice family mausoleum outside New Orleans, seen here, that was constructed a year after the passing of Anne's husband, Stan. His remains are here as well. One of Michele's favorite songs was "Free The People" by Delaney and Bonnie, which we've shared in the comments below. (Posted by Anne's Team)Michele resembled her mother and inherited Anne's dark eyes, but had her father's light hair. Christopher looks almost exactly like his father, author, Stan Rice. The two siblings would never know one another since Michele died years before Christopher was born.∼The first child and only daughter of novelist Anne Rice and poet/painter Stan Rice. Born with her father's blonde hair and her mother's brown eyes, she was a very bright and vivacious person whom family and friends adored. Her health was considered as normal as that of any other child until late one summer afternoon in 1970 when she came home early from playing with her friends and told her mother that she was "too tired to play." Knowing that something was wrong, but hoping it was just a typical childhood sickness, her mother took her to the doctor who sensed something more malignant was occurring. Blood tests were administered and she was checked into Stanford Children's Hospital in Berkeley, California. The results revealed that she possessed acute granuleucytic leukemia, a strain of the disease in which the chances of survival were next to none. The following two years were filled with a blurred series of hospital stays during which the leukemia rapidly spread despite chemotherapy treatments. A little before her 6th birthday, she passed away.
Cause of death: Acute granuleucytic leukemia
It was Michelle's tragic death of leukemia which inspired both of her parents to write.∼She was moved to the Rice family Mausoleum after her father's death. Anne was so moved to receive this photograph today, and she's asked us to share it with all of you. A close family friend placed these flowers on the Rice family mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery outside New Orleans in honor of Michele Rice's birthday. Anne's beloved daughter was taken from us at the age of six by a terrible form of leukemia. She would have been fifty-five years old today, but as many of us know, she lives on as the inspiration for the child vampire Claudia in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. For years Michele lay in an unmarked grave in a Northern California cemetery, the victim of the financial strain that fell upon the Anne and Stan in the wake of Michele's long illness and heartbreaking death. Some years back her remains were relocated to the Rice family mausoleum outside New Orleans, seen here, that was constructed a year after the passing of Anne's husband, Stan. His remains are here as well. One of Michele's favorite songs was "Free The People" by Delaney and Bonnie, which we've shared in the comments below. (Posted by Anne's Team)Michele resembled her mother and inherited Anne's dark eyes, but had her father's light hair. Christopher looks almost exactly like his father, author, Stan Rice. The two siblings would never know one another since Michele died years before Christopher was born.∼The first child and only daughter of novelist Anne Rice and poet/painter Stan Rice. Born with her father's blonde hair and her mother's brown eyes, she was a very bright and vivacious person whom family and friends adored. Her health was considered as normal as that of any other child until late one summer afternoon in 1970 when she came home early from playing with her friends and told her mother that she was "too tired to play." Knowing that something was wrong, but hoping it was just a typical childhood sickness, her mother took her to the doctor who sensed something more malignant was occurring. Blood tests were administered and she was checked into Stanford Children's Hospital in Berkeley, California. The results revealed that she possessed acute granuleucytic leukemia, a strain of the disease in which the chances of survival were next to none. The following two years were filled with a blurred series of hospital stays during which the leukemia rapidly spread despite chemotherapy treatments. A little before her 6th birthday, she passed away.
Cause of death: Acute granuleucytic leukemia
