BLEVINS, Opal Laura Evelyn (POOLE)

POOLE, BLEVINS, HULLINGER, HEMBRY, OBRIEN, GRIMES, BELKEY, LENZ, SCHULTZ, DAVIS, MCKEE

Posted By: Sharon B Becker (email)
Date: 10/31/2014 at 15:12:05

Obituary ~ Opal Laura Evelyn (Poole) Blevins
September 30, 1905 ~ May 18, 2012

Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

Opal Laura Evelyn Blevins was born September 30, 1905 near Leon, Iowa the daughter of Alma and Charlotte (Hullinger) Poole.

Opal was raised, received her education and taught school in and around the Leon, Iowa area. On March 25, 1928 she was united in marriage to Howard Nason Blevins in Leon. The couple lived and farmed in Decatur County where their five children were born. In 1940 they moved to Wayne County and continued farmig there until her husband's death until 1972. Then she moved to Corydon, Iowa and lived there until 1983. From there Opal moved into the Good Life Retirement Center at Norwalk, Iowa, to be near her oldest daughter, Alberta. In 1994 she moved to Oak View l, in Knoxville, near her daughter, Beverly. In May 1999, Opal moved to Griffin Nursing Center in Knoxville.

As a teenager, Opal was converted and baptized into the New Salem Baptist Church near Pleasanton, Iowa. She later attended the New Zion Methodist Church close to their farm in Wayne County. While she lived in Corydon, she attended the First Baptist Church.

Opal always enjoyed church, bible study, and the fellowship of bible-loving people. She was a conscientious homemaker and she loved her family and friends.

Opal passed away on Friday, May 18, 2012 at the Griffin Nursing Center, in Knoxville, at the age of 106 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Howard; brother, Carl; sister, Hazel Hembry; sisters-in-law; Pete O'Brien, Doyle Grimes and Frank Belkey; grandson-in-law, Michael Lenz; grandson, Calvin Grimes and one nephew, Donnie Schultz.

Those left to honor her memory include her children; Alberta Belkey of Waukee; Beverly O'Brien Davis (Gene) of Waukee; Marilyn Grimes of West Columbia, South Carolina; Marcia McKee (Harold) of Littleton, Colorado and Lynn Blevins (Joyce) of Marshalltown; 13 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great grandchildren; 3 step-grandchildren; 6 step-great grandchildren; 3 step-great great grandchild; brother, Edwin Poole of Corydon, Iowa and many other faamily members and friends.

Visitation 10-11 am 5/21/2012 at Christ's Church Knoxville, Iowa. Service 11 am 5/21/2012. Burial in Leon Cemetery. Mrmorials, Griffin Nursing Center.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2014

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