Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Mrs. Opal Gregory Manley
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Mrs. Opal Gregory Manley
    Mrs. Opal Gregory Manley, 74, 2307 Pickett Street, Greenville, died
unexpectedly Wednesday, August 17, 1967, in a Greenville hospital.
    Services were at 2:00 PM Thursday, August 18, 1967, at the Sorrells and
Sons Funeral Chapel, Greenville, with the Rev. Raymond Bugg and the Rev. W. O.
Majors officiating.  Burial was in McWright Cemetery.
    Mrs. Manley was born in 1893 in Kentucky, the daughter of William Gregory
and Labertha Feddy Gregory.  She came to Texas with her parents as a child and
had lived in Hunt County most of her life.
    She was married in the early 1900's to G. C. Payne, who died in 1945.  She
later married Bob A. Manley.
    She was a member of Mineral Heights Baptist Church in Greenville.
    Besides her widower, survivors include two sons, Floyd Payne of Sulphur
Springs and A. D. Payne of Garland; six daughters, Mr. Edna Wright of
Greenville, Mrs. Selma Lanier of Celeste, Mrs. Lorene Atteberry of Irving, Mrs.
Odell Childress of Blue Ridge, and Mrs. Evelyn Atteberry, and Mrs. Veda Stokey
of Dallas.  Also twenty-three grandchildren and thirty-four great-grandchildren
survive.
    Mrs. Manley's grandsons served as pallbearers.  (August 25, 1967, The
Celeste Courier)

Card of Thanks
    I want to thank my friends for the cards, letters, and flowers received
after the passing of my mother, Mrs. Opal Manley.  I sure do appreciate my
friends and hope each will have remembrances during an hour of sorrow.
    Mrs. Roy Lanier (September 1, 1967, The Celeste Courier)