Jessie Evans Rivers, age 85, of Heritage Place, Morehead, Kentucky, passed away Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at the Life Care Center in Morehead. She was born April 26, 1923, in Carter County, Kentucky, daughter of the late Ralph and Mabel Turner Evans. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Jack, Ora, and Frank Evans; two sisters, Sue Messer and Wilma Gearhart; and one grandson, Damon Rivers. Her husband, Frank Edwin Rivers, passed away in 1978. Mrs. Rivers is survived by two sons, Brother Don Rivers of Morehead, Kentucky, and Michael Edwin Rivers of Muncie, Indiana; three sisters, Ruth Horton and Bessie Middleton, both of Morehead, Kentucky, and Edna Middleton of Yorktown, Indiana; three grandchildren, Angela Decker, Derrick Rivers, and April Rivers; and five great grandchildren, Jacinda Rivers, Gavin Rivers, Sidney Decker, Loren Decker and Lane Decker. Mrs. Rivers was a homemaker and of the Church of God faith. Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Friday, December 5, 2008, at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals Memorial Chapel with Brother Ray Glover and Brother Mitch Roe officiating. Burial will follow in the Bowen Chapel Cemetery in Carter County. Visitation for Mrs. Rivers will be after 4 p.m. Thursday, December 4, 2008, at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals. Visitation: Thursday, December 4, 2008, after 4 p.m. Funeral: Friday, December 5, 2008, at 1 p.m. Interment: Bowen Chapel Cemetery