OBITUARY: Ophelia Neal, 99, dies April 29, 2013

Ophelia Neal entered final rest April 29, 2013. She was born March 24, 1914, in Pendleton, Texas, to Webb H. and Flora A. Raborn.

She now joins her husband of 33 years, Charles M. Neal Sr., who predeceased her in 1988; sister Lorene; brothers Walter Hugh, Bonnie, Virgil and Delbert; son Carl Dean Proctor; and grandson Michael D. Proctor.

She is survived by sisters Ovella Phillips of Belton and Violet Dunn-Markle of Burnet; daughter-in-law Alice Proctor of Aurora, Neb.; and son Charles M. Neal Jr. and wife Judy of Porter.

All are eternally grateful for the love, care, guidance and support provided by Ophelia over the many years of her life. She was especially proud of her grandchildren Richard Proctor of Grand Island, Neb.; Karen Steward and husband Buford of Kingwood and Terri L. Therrien and husband Paul of Houston.

The lights of her life in her later years were her great-grandchildren, Buford “Trey” and Sydne Steward and Neal D. Watson.

“Sally,” as Ophelia was known to friends and co-workers, was a licensed vocational nurse, a career she practiced through age 85. She was a former longtime resident of the Harlandale section of San Antonio and Sunrise Beach on Lake LBJ, but also resided at various times in Taft, Pleasanton and Livermore, Calif.; Manilla, Philippine Islands; and, while employed with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service: Topeka, Kan.; Lincoln, Neb.; and Fort Worth.

She was an unabashedly patriotic American and proud Texan who, during World War II, briefly worked assembling heavy bomb ordnance at the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant in McGregor.

The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Jessica Fritz and Penny A. Balch and the staff and neighbors in the Garden Gate Apartments for their devoted and loving care of Ophelia over the last decade of her life.

A funeral service is 10 a.m. May 4 at Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home, 306 Texas 29 East in Burnet, (512) 756-2222. Interment will follow at Liberty Hill Cemetery.