SIKESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Opal F. Yates of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. Burial will be in Armer Cemetery near Bertrand, Mo.
Friends may call from 10 a.m. until service time.
Yates, 76, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2000, at Clearview Nursing Center.
She was born May 6, 1924, in Missouri, daughter of Henry and Nora Bruner Davis.
Survivors include a son, Allan Yates of Caruthersville, Mo.; three daughters, Mary Perkins of East Prairie, Mo., Ruth Yates and Nora Magee of Sikeston; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
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