Obit of Allen, Opal Fae Caudle (a450) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 2 Oct 2003 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Allen, Caudle, Kirk, Roark, Smith, Burgess Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5558 Opal Fae Allen was born November 20, 1928 west of Leedey, Oklahoma to Vera and William Caudle. She passed away September 25, 2003 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital, Cheyenne, Oklahoma at the age of 74 years, 20 months and 8 days. Opal attended Five Star and Breezy Meadow schools. The family moved east of Roll, Oklahoma where she graduated from Crawford High School in 1945. She was married to Jack Allen at Cheyenne, Oklahoma on June 16, 1945. Opal and Jack moved to the Crawford community to make their home. She worked all of her life on their ranch where she pulled broom corn, cotton and fed the cows. Opal and Jack taught their children to work hard and to give their all at whatever they were doing. She loved to cook and was the hapiest when she was feeding large groups like their field hands and her family. She was a member of the Durham First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her father, husband, one infant grandson, Justin, one granddaughter, Skyla Roark and her husband, Michael. She is survived by one daughter, Glenda Sue Kirk and husband, Wallice, Cheyenne, Oklahoma; five sons, Jimmy Allen and wife, Becky, Crawford, Oklahoma; Jodie Allen and wife, Barbara, Erick, Oklahoma; Johnnie Allen and wife Glenda, Harmon, Oklahoma; Jerry Allen and wife, Nancy, Crawford, Oklahoma; Jackie Allen and wife, Pat, Cheyenne, Oklahoma; her mother, Vera Caudle, Roll, Oklahoma; three sisters, Dorothy Smith, Roll, Oklahoma; Florence Burgess, Amarillo, Texas; Kay Caudle, Roll, Oklahoma; fourteen grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. Services were held Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. at the Durham Community Building, officiated by Ray Smart and Terry Beals. Burial followed at Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction off Rose Chapel Funeral Service, Cheyenne, Oklahoma. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok 2-Oct-2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html