Opal Lee Maack

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Opal Lee Hamlin Maack of Sikeston, the daughter of the late William L. and Nannie Jane Barker Smith, was born Aug. 16, 1912 in Parma and died Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, at the age of 89. She had been a housewife and homemaker, had worked for the Foster Grandparents Program and was a member of the Vanduser Baptist Church. On Aug. 15, 1930 she was united in marriage to Thomas Hamlin in Bloomfield. He preceded her in death on Dec. 1, 1980. Survivors include two daughters, Wanda Hamlin and Faye Hart, both of Sikeston; one brothers, Lloyd Smith of Rector, Ark.; two sisters, Ruth Evans of Oran and Louise Wilson of Okeechobee, Fla.; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by one son, one daughter, three brothers, and three sisters. Visitation will be held at the Nunnelee Funeral Home in Sikeston from 5 - 8 p.m., Thursday, March 21. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 22 in the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel with Rev. Glenn Rogers, Pastor of the Vanduser Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will follow in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens with Nunnelee Funeral Home of Sikeston in charge of arrangements.

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