Ferrell, Opal

Funeral services for Opal Ferrell, 89, of Longview, will 
be 10 a.m. Friday, January 5, 2007, at the chapel of Rader 
Funeral Home, with the Reverend Billy Foote officiating. 
Interment will be 1 p.m. in the Shady Grove Cemetery of 
Panola County, Texas. Mrs. Ferrell was born July 19, 1917, 
in Grand Bluff, Texas, to Charles and Zora Hudson. She was 
a member of Watermark Fellowship and had been the fountain 
manager for F.W. Woolworth and worked at several local 
restaurants as a waitress. Mrs. Ferrell was a loving mother, 
grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was preceded in 
death by her husbands, John A. Ferrell and Willie N. Dailey; 
son, Reuben Dailey; parents, Charles and Zora Hudson; 
brothers, Thomas, Henry, James, and Virgil Hudson; and 
sisters, Louise Jarrell, Nell Webster, and Alene Hudson. Mrs. 
Ferrell is survived by her daughters, Leatha Glisson of San 
Antonio, and Laura Skinner and husband, Arnold of Longview; 
sons, Bobby Ferrell and wife, Vicki of Spring, Charles Ferrell 
and wife, Jan of Longview, and Gene Ferrell and wife, Glenda 
of Longview; daughter-in-law, Merlene Dailey of Gladewater; 11 
grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and numerous other 
relatives. The family will greet friends from 7-8 p.m. Thursday 
evening, January 4, 2007, at the funeral home. A memorial 
guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 1/4/2007.