By Staff
Opal I. Harpole, 77, of Regent Street, Niles, died at 12:54 p.m. Thursday, June 19, 2008, following an auto accident at the corner of M-60 and Dailey Road near Cassopolis.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, June 23, at Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, with the Rev. Patricia Harpole of Country Chapel United Methodist Church, Dowling.
Burial will be in Mission Hills Memorial Gardens, Niles.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
She was born on Aug. 15, 1930, in Manchester, Tenn. to Ernest Posey and Lourena Townsend Posey.
She had lived in Niles for 60 years, coming from Manchester, Tenn.
She attended the Church of Christ in Niles.
The Cass County Council on Aging and the American Legion Post No. 26 in Niles both gave her the opportunity to dance, which she loved to do any chance she could. She loved spending time with her grandchildren.
On Feb. 17, 1947, in Rome, Ga., she married George V. Harpole, Sr., who died May 9, 1981.
She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Lena Galambos, Etta Francis Poarch and Earlene Pomery.
Surviving family includes two sons, George V. (Janice) Harpole, Jr. of Niles and Everett L. (Patricia) Harpole of Plainwell; grandchildren, Laura (Jeff) Stover,, Jason (Sharla) Harpole, Sarah (Gary) Skinner, Rachel Harpole, Sarah Myles and Monica Harpole; great-grandchildren, Jessica Stover, Cheyenne Barker and Justin Harpole and three sisters, Kathy Ignaffo of Palatine, Ill., Mildred Wilson of Manchester, Tenn. and Ida Mae Pomery of Nashville, Tenn.
Memorials may be made to American Heart Association or the Church of Christ in Niles.
Arrangements were by Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles.