Opal Anderson

Opal Marie Rose Hicks Anderson, 97, left us to be with Jesus, her Savior, on February 27, 2009. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dick Anderson, her son Jimmie Al Anderson, her great-grandson, James Ralston, her parents, Charlie and Susie Hicks, her brothers, Essie, Jess, J.T. Hicks, her sisters, Ola Braxton and Josie OGrady.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sue and Jerry Ralston of Odessa, TX, her brothers Cecil Toby Hicks of Shamrock, TX and Paul Hicks of St. Louis, MO, six grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Rose came to Wheeler Co., TX with her family in a covered wagon in the early 1900s from Arlington, TX. Her family was farmers and ranchers and lived just east of the Lela community. She went to school at Lela and graduated high school in Shamrock, where she was a member of the F.U.N. club, Flappers Under Nineteen. She met W. N. Dick Anderson when they were children and married him Jan. 6, 1933. She worked at the carbon black in Dumas during WWII and after the war she and Dick came back to Lela to farm. She work side by side with him farming and raising cattle. In 1958, she took a job at Lela school cooking lunch and driving the school bus. The kids there will never forget her delicious lunches and lessons in good manners and still talk about her influence in their lives and the lives of their children. She worked there for 37 years. After Dick died in 1971, she continued farming and ranching with the help of her family until she was well into her 80s. She taught us how to laugh, love, work hard and face life with your chin out and unafraid, simply by the way she lived her life. What a legacy she has left us. May each of us try everyday to live up to those lessons and may we never forget all the wonderful memories she has left behind.

Family will receive friends on Sunday, March 1, 2009 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 P.M. at Sunset Funeral Home

Services will be held on Monday March 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM at First Baptist Church in Shamrock, TX with her grandson Keith Ralston and great-grandson Chad Glover officiating. Interment will follow at Shamrock Cemetery.

Services are entrusted to Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
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