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Beaver County, Oklahoma

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Opal (Spencer) Beard

Enid Morning News Enid, Oklahoma November 1986

Submitted by: Glenn Shroads

Knowles – Services for Opal Beard, 71, who died Sunday in a Shattuck hospital, will be 2 PM Wednesday in the Church of the Nazarene in Knowles. The Rev. Wesley Peterman of Laverne and the Rev. Roy Sloan, pastor, will officiate.

Burial will be in the Knowles Cemetery, with arrangements under the direction of the Seeger Funeral Home of Laverne.

She was born at Gate on September 14, 1915, to John and Sarah Maude DeSpain Spencer. She had lived most of her life in Beaver County.

She and Fred Sylvester Beard were married at Buffalo February 13, 1934. They farmed near Knowles.

She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene and the Knowles Home Demonstration Club. Her husband died in 1980 and she was also preceded in death by four brothers. For the past two years, Mrs. Beard had lived in Follett, Texas.

Survivors include a son, James Beard of Follett; four daughters, Mrs. Gene (Marietta) Kinney, Gage, Mrs. Clayton (Wyvetta) Kasper, Gate, Mrs. J. D. (Freda) Batman of Madill and Mrs. Lois Lusk, Follett; three sisters, Lena Beeson, Spearman, Texas, Neoma Ruggles, Carson City, California, and Gayle Compton, Goodman, Missouri; 10 grandchildren and 13 great – grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Knowles Church of the Nazarene with the funeral home serving as custodian of the fund.

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