Funeral Mass: 9 a.m. August 30, 2017 at San Judas Tadeo, El Paso, Texas.
Interment: Memory Gardens Cemetery, Santa Teresa, NM.
Survived by sons Abel Jr. and Manuel Rivera, daughters; Leonor Martinez, Reynalda Ramirez and Estella Rivera, siblings; Faustino Soto, Guadalupe Ortega and Maria Peña.