Viewing will be 12-8 PM Saturday 1/7 and Sunday 1/8 at the funeral home. Funeral services will be held January 9, 2017, at Vondel L Smith & Son Mortuary, 6934 S Western Ave, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With burial following at 2:30 at Sunnylane Cemetery.


Opal Marie (Stotts) Carver departed this life on January 4, 2017 to join her Heavenly Father, husband and her parents who have gone on. Opal was born to Fred and Myrtle (Curry) Stotts on November 1, 1927 at Fonda Oklahoma (east of Seiling, Oklahoma). When she was about one year old, her parents moved to a farm, two miles north of Seiling where she grew up.

Opal graduated from Seiling Public School in 1946. In the fall of 1947 she went to Enid Business College, in Enid Oklahoma, where she received a Secretarial degree and held several secretarial jobs in Enid. In September 1950 she went to work for National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Enid. In 1966 she was transferred to Oklahoma City where she held the position of Cashier and retired in December of 1983 from the company after working thirty three years with them.

Opal met her husband Henry M. Carver shortly after moving to Oklahoma City. They were married on November 1, 1968.

Opal attended and was baptized at the First Christian Church at Seiling while attending school. After moving to Oklahoma City she became a member of May Avenue Wesleyan Church where she and her husband were faithful members until their deaths.

Opal enjoyed reading, embroidering and traveling with her husband and members of the Oklahoma Retired Citizens Travel Club. They traveled through all fifty states and Canada. Opal was also a member of the Gideon’s Auxiliary of Oklahoma City Southwest Camp.

One of Opal’s greatest joys was giving to others. She enjoyed writing letters, sending cards, giving little gifts and enjoyed doing a family Christmas letter. She also enjoyed collecting Precious Moments, Thimbles, Magnets, Cardinals and all those little things to dust. She also had around 300 Beanie Babies.

Opal was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Carver, her parents Fred and Myrtle Stotts, her brother Harold Stotts and three sisters, Irene Wallace, Nina Mae Riggins and Lucille Stotts, her step daughter Shirley McGuire, and grandson Stephen Murrow. She is survived by her brother Everett Stotts and his wife Ruth Ann of Chester, Oklahoma, her sisters Treva Smith of Montgomery City, Missouri, and June Wilson of Oklahoma City, her son, Robert M. Carver and wife Judy of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, step daughter, Carolyn Murrow and husband Walter of Slaughterville Oklahoma, five grand children, Greg, Tracey, Robert, Jennifer and Kathryn. Great granddaughters, Jessica, Hadasah and Allison, great grandsons, Jacob, Tristan and Blake. Several nieces and nephews, Opal loved her family very much.

Opal had many close friends from work, church, travel club and Gideon Auxiliary, that she kept in contact with and especially loved to shop with her best friend Diana Ward. Memorials may be given to May Avenue Wesleyan Church or Gideon’s International.

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