Funeral services for Mrs. Opal Blazier Spears will be Monday, June 24, 2024, at 3:00 PM at Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Monroe with Pastor Warren Eckhardt officiating. Visitation with family will be at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, Monroe, Sunday, June 23, 2024 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM. Interment will be at Mulhearn Memorial Park. Services are under the care and direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Homes, Monroe.
Opal Blazier Spears passed away from this Earth and entered the grace of God on June 20, 2024. She was 99 years of age. Opal was born on July 11, 1924 in Olla, Louisiana and was a 1941 graduate of Olla Standard High School. She led a full life while residing in Louisiana, California, Texas, and New Mexico but Monroe, Louisiana was her true and longtime home town.
Opal was a loving and dedicated wife, mother, and homemaker to her family and loved having her family around her at all times. She loved to visit her family in Georgia, making her last trip not long ago at age 99. She especially enjoyed her great granddaughter Lauren’s wedding, dancing the night away at age 91. She was an avid reader with an extensive book collection and loved working in her yard alongside her husband. Cooking meals for her husband and family was fundamental in her life.
She was a believer in Christ and a member of North Monroe Baptist Church.
Opal is preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, James Henry (Jimmy) Spears; parents, Charlie and Beulah Blazier; brothers, C.B. Blazier, Huey Blazier, and Virgil Blazier; sister, Pearl Self;, and a beloved aunt, Candace Dosher.
She is survived by her sister, Joyce Jeter; daughter, Linda Risley and her husband Cary; son, Larry Spears and his wife Denise; grandsons, Marty Risley and Barclay Spears; granddaughters, Lori Rogers and Lindsay Hadley; step-granddaughters, Christina and Catie Cannon; and many great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.
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