HORSE BRANCH, Ky. — Bessie M. Rice, 90, of Horse Branch, died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, at The Heartford House in Owensboro, Kentucky. She was born in Louellen, Kentucky, to the late Chester and Molly Brock Collett.
She liked to travel and eat but she enjoyed being with her family the most. She worked as a nurse’s aide at Red Bird Mission Hospital and was a member of Red Bird Methodist Church.
She was preceded in death by two sons, James Levi Smith and Cecil Collett; three sisters, Annie, Edith, and Nora; and three brothers, Walter, Harold and David.
Survivors include two daughters, Susan Rice (Tim), of Horse Branch, and Alice Bowling (Keith), of Hyden, Kentucky; two sons, David Smith (Sherelene), of Essie, Kentucky, and Charles Smith (Barbara), of Horse Branch; a sister, Vada Beatty, of Arnold, Missouri; and 19 grandchildren, and a host of great-, and great-great-grandchildren.
Services are 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at Bevil Bros. Funeral Home in Beaver Dam, Kentucky, with Bro. Scott Flener officiating. A private burial will be in the Rice Family Cemetery. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be made at bevilbrosfuneralhomes.com.