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Opal Witten,
77, of Mexico, died at 5:05 p.m., Dec. 13, 2005, at Pin Oaks Nursing
Center in Mexico. Funeral
services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, 2005, at
Pickering Funeral Home with Russell Pulis officiating. Visitation will
be on Thursday from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Witten was born on
November 8, 1928, in Mexico, a daughter of Omer Mitchell and Mabel
Willingham Roberts. She was an operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone
in Mexico. On Oct. 4, 1946, she married Tandy L. Witten, who died on
Oct. 9, 1971.
Survivors include one
son, Terry Witten, Oak Grove; a daughter, Nancy Stuart and husband
Melvin, Graham, Tex.; four brothers, Thomas Roberts and wife Joan, and
Carl Roberts and wife Hiroko, all of Mexico, Larry Roberts and wife
Jacqueline, Independence, and Jim Roberts, Oklahoma City, Okla.; nine
grandchildren, Tonya Kuda, Bruner, Mo., Mike McDonald of the state of
Hawaii, Bridget Lipscomb, Platte City, Tony Lipscomb, Weston, April
Lipscomb, Platte City, Sheridan Witten, Ft. Cobb, Okla., Ben Witten, Ft.
Cobb, Okla., Lauren Deckert, Oak Grove, and Clayton Witten, Oak Grove;
and five great grandchildren, Kortney Kuda, Bruner, Mallory Kuda,
Laddonia, Avis Lipscomb, Platte City, Tyler Lipscomb, Weston, and Kaden
Witten, Ft. Cobb, Okla.
In addition to her
husband and parents, one brother, Donald Roberts, preceded her in death.
Memorials may be given to the Central Missouri Kidney Association and
sent in care of Pickering Funeral Home, 403 N. Western, Mexico, MO
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