Graveside services for Opal Lavern Lee will be held at 10:00am on Friday, September 22, 2017 at Roberts Cemetery in Troy, TX with Ray Blundell officiating.
Lavern passed away Monday, September 18, 2017 in a local care center. She was born on January 24, 1926 in Abilene, TX to Oel and Ada (Shipley) Jackson. She married L.D. Lee in 1953 in Temple. She spent her school days in Academy schools and graduated in 1944. She and L.D. lived in numerous places as he was in the military and retired. She was a member of the Troy First Baptist Church and was an active member of the Joy Sunday School class until her illness.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 64 years in April 2017, her brother L.P. Jackson, and her sister Lorene Long.
She is survived by a son Roger Lee and wife Debra of Katy, her daughter Saundra Woodall of Waynesboro, Virginia, 6 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, her brother Wilbur Jackson of Troy and several nieces and nephews.
Hewett-Arney Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements. The family would like to thank the Mercy House Care Center and Kindred Hospice for all the care, love and attention they gave for the last year of her life.
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