Frances May Tracy Rives entered into eternal rest on December 19, 2022.  Frances was born in San Antonio, Texas, on October 2, 1928, to Donald G. and Gaudra Dempsey Tracy.  Frances graduated from Marshall High School and attended East Texas Baptist College. While attending college, she was employed by the J. F. Lentz Jewelry Company. For 24 years she worked in various capacities at the Marshall National Bank and Peoples State Bank. In 1974, Mrs. Rives began her career with the Texas & Pacific Employees' Hospital Association, where she retired in 1987.

Mrs. Rives has been a lifetime and active member of the Port Caddo Baptist Church, serving in various leadership positions including Sunday School teacher to a wide range of age groups, church librarian, and part-time church secretary. She enjoyed sharing her excellent culinary skills at fellowship dinners and with church and community friends who were ill or grieving.

Frances loved and cherished her family and many friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Woodrow Rives, to whom she was married for 59 years; her twin sisters, Jeanette Johnson and Wynette Emery, and sister, Gay Irwin. She is survived by her two daughters, Tracy Johnston (Jerry) of Corpus Christi, Texas and Tommie Welch (Mike) of Woodway, Texas; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; her brother, Chris Tracy (Pat) of Huntsville, Texas, and numerous nieces and nephews. A heartfelt thank you to Sissi Allison, her beloved and devoted friend and caregiver.

Services will be held at Downs Funeral Home, 4608 Elysian Fields Road, Marshall, Texas, beginning with visitation at 10:30 a.m., followed by a celebration of life at 11:15 a.m., Thursday, December 22, 2022. Interment will follow at Colonial Gardens Cemetery, Marshall, Texas.

Memorial gifts, in her honor, may be made to the Port Caddo Baptist Church, 3712 Karnack Highway, Marshall, Texas 75672.