Source: Daily Ardmoreite
SULPHUR -- Memorial services for Opal Hartsell Brown are scheduled for 2 p.m. Jan. 6, 2000, at the Vinita Avenue Church of Christ. Private interment was Dec. 15, 1999, at Sunset Memorial Garden in Lawton, under the direction of Clagg Funeral Home.
Mrs. Brown was born at Butner, to Aubrey A. and Nannie Herndon Hartsell. She died Dec. 13, 1999, in Sulphur.
She graduated from Sulphur High School and East Central State Teacher's College and did most of her graduate work in writing at the University of Oklahoma. She continued her education in Mexico, Central State University, in East Africa and Southern Mississippi State and Northern Illinois University. She taught school in Seminole, Sulphur, Butner, Lawton and at the Army Education Center at Ft. Sill.
She won numerous honors and awards at the national, state and local levels, including four Who's Who, and was given the Distinguished Services Award for Preservation of State and Local History by the Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1999. She had several books published and had written the Sooner Footprints historical column for the Sulphur Times Democrat since 1986. She was a member of Vinita Avenue Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Brown, in 1967; two brothers, Jesse O. and R.A. Hartsell; and an infant sister.
She is survived by nieces and nephews.
SULPHUR -- Memorial services for Opal Hartsell Brown are scheduled for 2 p.m. Jan. 6, 2000, at the Vinita Avenue Church of Christ. Private interment was Dec. 15, 1999, at Sunset Memorial Garden in Lawton, under the direction of Clagg Funeral Home.
Mrs. Brown was born at Butner, to Aubrey A. and Nannie Herndon Hartsell. She died Dec. 13, 1999, in Sulphur.
She graduated from Sulphur High School and East Central State Teacher's College and did most of her graduate work in writing at the University of Oklahoma. She continued her education in Mexico, Central State University, in East Africa and Southern Mississippi State and Northern Illinois University. She taught school in Seminole, Sulphur, Butner, Lawton and at the Army Education Center at Ft. Sill.
She won numerous honors and awards at the national, state and local levels, including four Who's Who, and was given the Distinguished Services Award for Preservation of State and Local History by the Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1999. She had several books published and had written the Sooner Footprints historical column for the Sulphur Times Democrat since 1986. She was a member of Vinita Avenue Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Brown, in 1967; two brothers, Jesse O. and R.A. Hartsell; and an infant sister.
She is survived by nieces and nephews.
Source: Daily Ardmoreite
SULPHUR -- Memorial services for Opal Hartsell Brown are scheduled for 2 p.m. Jan. 6, 2000, at the Vinita Avenue Church of Christ. Private interment was Dec. 15, 1999, at Sunset Memorial Garden in Lawton, under the direction of Clagg Funeral Home.
Mrs. Brown was born at Butner, to Aubrey A. and Nannie Herndon Hartsell. She died Dec. 13, 1999, in Sulphur.
She graduated from Sulphur High School and East Central State Teacher's College and did most of her graduate work in writing at the University of Oklahoma. She continued her education in Mexico, Central State University, in East Africa and Southern Mississippi State and Northern Illinois University. She taught school in Seminole, Sulphur, Butner, Lawton and at the Army Education Center at Ft. Sill.
She won numerous honors and awards at the national, state and local levels, including four Who's Who, and was given the Distinguished Services Award for Preservation of State and Local History by the Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1999. She had several books published and had written the Sooner Footprints historical column for the Sulphur Times Democrat since 1986. She was a member of Vinita Avenue Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Brown, in 1967; two brothers, Jesse O. and R.A. Hartsell; and an infant sister.
She is survived by nieces and nephews.
SULPHUR -- Memorial services for Opal Hartsell Brown are scheduled for 2 p.m. Jan. 6, 2000, at the Vinita Avenue Church of Christ. Private interment was Dec. 15, 1999, at Sunset Memorial Garden in Lawton, under the direction of Clagg Funeral Home.
Mrs. Brown was born at Butner, to Aubrey A. and Nannie Herndon Hartsell. She died Dec. 13, 1999, in Sulphur.
She graduated from Sulphur High School and East Central State Teacher's College and did most of her graduate work in writing at the University of Oklahoma. She continued her education in Mexico, Central State University, in East Africa and Southern Mississippi State and Northern Illinois University. She taught school in Seminole, Sulphur, Butner, Lawton and at the Army Education Center at Ft. Sill.
She won numerous honors and awards at the national, state and local levels, including four Who's Who, and was given the Distinguished Services Award for Preservation of State and Local History by the Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1999. She had several books published and had written the Sooner Footprints historical column for the Sulphur Times Democrat since 1986. She was a member of Vinita Avenue Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Brown, in 1967; two brothers, Jesse O. and R.A. Hartsell; and an infant sister.
She is survived by nieces and nephews.
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