Obituaries:  Opal Napier Wright Magness, Sabine Parish       M-252
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jun 19, 2002
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Opal Napier Wright Magness

  Funeral services for Mrs. Opal Napier Wright Magness, 84, of
Converse, were held at 10 a.m., on Monday, June 17, 2002, at the
Rose-Neath Chapel in Mansfield. The Rev. William Hasson, pastor
of Midway Baptist Church, officiated. Burial followed at Sardis
Cemetery in Converse.

  Mrs. Magness was born in Converse, and died at Sabine Medical
Center on Thursday, June 13. She graduated from Northwestern
State University, and received her graduate degree from Emory
University in Atlanta, Ga. Before her retirement, she taught in
public schools in north Louisiana for a number of years, and was
a retired librarian.

  She is preceded in death by her parents, James E. Napier and
Bessie Jane Ford Napier; her first husband, Newell O. Wright; and
son, Arthur Oscar Wright II.

  Survivors include her husband, Willie Magness of Converse; one
son, Dr. Newell O. Wright Jr. and Betty Church of Fort Walton
Beach, Fla.; one daughter, Patricia Opal Wright Hall of Wildwood
Crest, N. J.; one stepson, John Magness of Friendship, Texas; and
four sisters, Maxine Kile of Converse, Betty Skinner of Florien,
Barbara Leatherwood of Converse, and Carolyn Martin of Many.

  She is also survived by one brother, James E. Napier Jr. of
Laurel, Miss.; two grandsons, Dennis R. Hall and wife Celeste,
and Benjamin N. Hall, both of Wildwood Crest, N. J.; two great
granddaughters, Anna-Faith Hall of Arlington, Va., and Meredith
Steurnagel and husband Paul of Wildwood Crest, N. J.; and great
grandchildren, Collin, and Isabella Hall.

  Pallbearers were grandsons, Dennis, and Benjamin Hall; stepson,
John C. Magness, and Floyd Ford, John Tatum, and C. B.
Leatherwood.

  Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Mansfield, La.