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Submitted: 6/23/21 • Approved: 6/23/21 • Last Updated: 6/26/21 • R430513-G430511-S3
Otis
1905-1972
Opal
1914-1996
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Otis
Funeral services for Ira Otis Harper, 66, of 1202 Haggard, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Chapel of the First Baptist Church.
Interment will follow in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Harper died at 3:55 p.m. Monday at North Plains Hospital. He was a retired employee of Southwestern Public Service Company and was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Opal of the home; two sons, James Harper of Fritch, Ronald Peterson with the U.S. Marine Corp, stationed in McAlester, Okla.; two daughters, Judy of the home; Mrs. Wanda Catchings of Sylacauga, Ala.; one brother, Ralph Harper of Pueblo, Colo.; one sister, Mrs. Louise Schauer of Harrison, Idaho; and four grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 14, 1972)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Ira Otis Harper
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1905
Birth Place: Colorado
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: James M Harper
Mother: Minnie Warner
Age at Death: 66
Death Date: 13 Mar 1972
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary Opal
Borger News Herald - August 5, 1996
Opal Harper, 81, Borger, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1996 in her home.
Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church Chapel with the Rev. Gregg Simmons, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors.
A native of Teague, she had been a Borger resident for 51 years. She was a housewife and member of First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ira Harper in 1972; and a daughter, Judy Dancer in 1995.
Survivors include, two sons, Jim Harper of Amarillo; and Pete Peterson of Borger; a daughter, Wanda Catchings of Sylacauga, Ala.; a brother, Raymond Isham of Amarillo; a sister, Ruby Hurt of Amarillo; 8 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers were E.J. Webb, John Bayless, Bill Willard, Joe Boyett, Charles Dixon, and Don Ormson.
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Opal Lurlene Isham
Birth Date: 24 Aug 1914
Birth Place: Teague, Freestone, Texas, USA
Texas, County Marriage Records, 1817-1965
Name: Opal Lerline Isham
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 7 Oct 1933
Marriage Place: Shackelford, Texas, USA
Spouse: Ora Albert Brewer
Film Number: 002398934
Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Opal L Isham
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Birth Year: abt 1915
Marriage Date: 9 Apr 1974
Marriage Place: Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Spouse: Willard W Henson
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Age: 59
Texas, Divorce Index, 1968-2014
Name: Opal L Henson
Gender: Female
Divorce Age: 60
Birth Year: 1914
Marriage Date: 9 Apr 1974
Divorce Date: 28 Oct 1974
Divorce Place: Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Spouse: Willard W Henson
Number of Children: 0
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Opal Harper
Death Date: 2 Aug 1996
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Opal Lerlene Brewer
[Opal Lerlene Harper]
[Opal Peterson]
[Opal Williams]
[Opal Harper]
[Opal Lerlene Isham]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 24 Aug 1914
Birth Place: Teague, Freestone, Texas
[Teague Frest??, Texas]
Death Date: 2 Aug 1996
Father: Elbridge B Isham
Mother: Milda L Stephens
Notes: Oct 1939: Name listed as OPAL LERLENE BREWER; Feb 1943: Name listed as OPAL LERLENE HARPER; Aug 1947: Name listed as OPAL LERLENE PETERSON; Nov 1954: Name listed as OPAL LERLENE WILLIAMS; 07 Aug 1996: Name listed as OPAL HARPER
Contributed on 6/23/21
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