Opal Adda Thompson

© The Guthrie News Leader

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Submitted by: Bob Chada

Opal Adda Thompson, 87, passed away Dec. 14, 2003, at the Beaver Valley Hospital Long-Term Care Center in Beaver, Utah.

She was born March 15, 1917, in Navina to Lute Orland Robinson and Mary Frances Cline. She married Claudie P. Thompson June 1, 1940, in Guthrie.

Opal was baptized in the Methodist Church in Navina and had been a member of the West Side Methodist Church in Guthrie and the Christ Methodist Church in Albuquerque, N. M. She graduated from Edmond High School and Wesley Hospital School of Nursing in Wichita, Kansas. She was a Registered Nurse in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah.

Opal loved to go to the horse races with Claudie and was known for her excellent recipes of peanut-butter fudge and peanut brittle. She loved her family, was generous to all and was proud of her Oklahoma heritage.

Opal is survived by her son Claudie P. Thompson Jr. and wife Rita of Rio Rancho, N. M. Rodney Skip Thompson and wife Ellen of Minersville, Utah, and step-son Robert Eugene Thompson and wife Bobbi of San Diego, Cali. She has eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Opel was preceded in death by her husband Claudie P. Thompson on Sept. 9, 1987.

Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 19, at 11 a.m. in the Smith Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in the Summit View Cemetery. Viewing will be in the Smith Funeral Home on Thursday afternoon and one hour prior to services Friday.