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Opal Candler
Opal Inez Alverson Candler, 83, of Greenville, died Friday, December 7, 2007 at Briarcliff Health Center. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.. Sunday, December 9, 2007, at Coker-Mathews Chapel with Rev. James Seigler officiating. Burial will be in Memoryland Memorial Park.
Pallbearers include Tommy Parmer, Roy Hamor, Gary Warren, Grady Jones, V. R. Webb and Butch Williams. Visitation is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007, 1 p.m. until time of services.
Born in Boswell, Oklahoma on August 27, 1924, she was the daughter of Avery Alverson and Della McComic Alverson. She married Elmer Leroy Candler in Hugo, Oklahoma on July 23, 1970.
She retired in 1980 as a telephone operator with Southwestern Bell and was a member of North Baptist Church and the Esther Sunday School Class.
Survivors include her sister, Robbie Woodruff of Greenville; brother and sister-in-law Walton and Peggy Alverson of Greenville; cousins Fredda Hobbs and Stanley Walls; sisters-in-law Dora Alverson and Evie Gagner; stepsons Stewart Candler and Dennis Candler; stepdaughters Claire Brown and Nina Bone; nieces and husbands Donna and Kevin Fox and Laverne and Roy Lee Hamor; and nephew and wife Tommy and Ranelle Parmer.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; sisters Modell Ramey and Enda Estel Alverson; and brothers Wilson Alverson and I. D. Parmer.