OPAL I. WARD

ADVANCE -- Opal I. Ward, 74, of Advance, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Feb. 23, 1920, near Bloomfield, daughter of Henry Allen and Violet Rose Summers Blunt. She and Roy Iverson Ward were married March 13, 1948, in Piggott, Ark. He died Jan. 22, 1981.

Ward was a member of First Baptist Church, and was a former Sunday School teacher.

Survivors include two daughters, Gail Butler of Little Rock, Ark., Brenda Lang of Cape Girardeau; her mother of Dexter; four brothers, Raymond Blunt of Poplar Bluff, Loren and Alfred Blunt of Dexter, J.W. Blunt of Wappapello; five sisters, Wilma Tanner, Mary Gay, Anna Lambert and Nancy Kalmback of Michigan, Patsy Clubb of Puxico; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Friends may call at Morgan Funeral Home from 5-9 p.m. today.

Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Scott Price officiating. Burial will be in Walker Cemetery near Bloomfield.