Fayette-State County KyArchives Obituaries.....Soper, Oma S. Smith July 19 1973 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alice Fleming Hobbs http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000361 August 16, 2004, 8:59 am Lexington Leader July 20, 1973 Former Principal Dies Mrs. Oma Smith Soper, 84, former principal of the Picadome Elementary and Russell Cave High schools, died Thursday. Mrs. Soper, 361 Translyvania Park, was a native of Nicholas County and the widow of Russell Soper. She was graduated with distinction from Eastern State Teachers College and received her master's degree from the University of Kentucky. She had taught in Fleming, Nicholas and Russell County high schools before coming to Lexington. Mrs. Soper attended the Woodland Christian Church and was a member of the Fayette County Kentucky and National Educaton Associations, the American Associaton of University Women, Kappa Delta Pi and the Business and Professinal Woman's Club. Srvices will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the W.R. Milward Mortuary- Southland, where friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Burial will be in the Carlisle Cemetery, Nicholas County. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/