Opal Boone Wray

Opal Susan Booth Boone Wray, youngest child of Joel and Nannie Booth, was born on September 15, 1924, in Peterstown, WV. She went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on July 1, 2011, at the age of 86. She was married on April 5, 1944, to Daniel Jacob Boone, who preceded her in death on February 9, 1987. Dad and Mom were united in marriage for 42 years.
Opal married Ernest David Wray December of 1992 .He preceded her in death on her birthday, September 15, 1995.
She is survived by her three daughters and sons-in-law, Bonnie and Donald Beckner, Connie and Melvin Riffey, and Cindy and Brad Brooks; five sons and daughters-in-law, Billy and Emily; Curtis and Myra; Joe and Ronda; Terry and Sheryl, and Keith and Mimi; step children, Mildred and Harley Davidson and Mary Alice and Dennis Flory; 30 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild; two brothers, Glenn and Price Booth, two sisters-in-law, Bonniezoe Booth and Catherine Booth; from the Boone family, Opal is survived by Lucille Benedict, Irene Hess, Jane Boone, Caroline Boone, Clarence and Nora Boone, Lester and Doris Ann Shively, Guy Lynch, and Doley Lesher; very special caregivers, Penny Austin, Alison Bowman, Eloise Bowman, Brenda King, Fran Sink, Karen, Winona and Tanya and the staff at Trinity Missions.
She was also preceded in death by her parents, infant great-grandson Travis Renicker, four brothers, Carlton, Howard, Hobart ,Eugene, and sisters-in-law: Mabel, Evelyn, Juanita, and Doris; two sisters and their companions, Elisabeth and Leslie Sowers, Virginia and Glenn Boone. Other family members preceding her in death are, Henry Ward Boone, Edith and Richard Reece, Abram Benedict, David Hess, Harold and Mary Boone, David Boone, Andy and Gladys Gipe, Russell Boone, Virginia Lynch, and John Lesher.
Opal accepted Christ as her Savior and was baptized in October of 1959. She was a member of the Old German Baptist Brethren New Conference.
In recent years as Mom’s health failed, the family devoted themselves to her care, along with her ”girls” ( the collective name she gave those who helped out so lovingly). Each child who lived near, and their family would take a day to enjoy Mom and see to her needs, we called this “Our Day”. Those who lived at a distant came as often as they could to share in this privilege. With so many helping, it was often necessary to ask, “Whose day is it to be with Mom?” In the last week of her life we as a family were blessed to have served “our day”. And now we are blessed to answer “Whose day is it to be with Mom?” with “It is God’s Day”. It was Mom’s faith in Christ and her unfailing trust in His saving grace that gives us this peace. We have learned much from her longing to go home to be with Jesus. Her example was her final gift to us. We thank the Lord for such a devoted follower of Christ to have been ours.
Services are to be held on Tuesday July 5, 2011 at the Pigg River Community Center at 11:00 am, with visitation taking place Monday from 2-4 and 6-9 at Pigg River Community Center. Interment will follow in Mountain View Memorial Park. Arrangements by Flora Funeral Service and Cremation Center, Rocky Mount.