Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Obituary: OPAL ANGIE McSORLEY
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                        OPAL ANGIE McSORLEY

OCNS - July 8, 2002 - Opal A. McSorley, 87, a life long resident of 
Cleveland, Oklahoma was born July 10, 1914 in Rowe, Oklahoma to William 
Edward and Nancy Emaline (Martin) Collins and passed away Wednesday, July 3, 
2002, a week short of her eighty-eighth birthday.   Opal grew up in the 
dog-center-road area where she attended a one room school house until the 
sixth grade when she began attending the Cleveland schools.   She later 
graduated high school from Cleveland at the age of sixteen and worked for 
some time as a waitress at Gilson's Cafe in Cleveland.

Opal was united in marriage to Lester McSorley and four children were born 
to the union which ended in divorce after ten years.   In 1947 Opal 
accepted employment with the First National Bank of Cleveland in 1947.   
She was promoted to all of the different positions and retired in 1980 as 
Vice President and Treasurer.   During her tenure at the bank, Opal was 
active with her co-worker in the bowling League at the Hominy (Oklahoma) 
Bowling Alley.   After her retirement, Opal continued to bowl until the 
late 1980s.

Opal stayed active sewing for people in town as well as doing their 
accounting and tax returns, was an active golfer at Keystone Golf Club, 
loved sewing, needle work, reading historical novels, playing cards 
(especially pinochle), solving mind games and playing dominoes.   People 
would say that Opal was very competitive in her hobbies and a very 
independent person.   Her proudest achievement was rearing her four 
children and sending them to college.

Opal passed away at Saint Simeon's in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 
eighty-seven years, eleven months and twenty-three days.   She was preceded 
in death by her parents, brothers Clint, Claude and Lloyd and sister, 
Gladys.

Opal is survived by her children, Jack and wife, Leah McSorley and Jean and 
husband, Don Paul all of Tulsa, Keith and wife, Tommie McSorley of Brenham, 
Texas and Mike and wife, Mary Lea McSorley of Charleston, South Carolina; 
six grandchildren; six great grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, other 
relatives and friends.

Services were held July 6, 2002 at the Woodland Cemetery Chapel with Pastor 
Dan Edens officiating.   Burial was in Woodland Cemetery under the 
direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home of Cleveland, Oklahoma.