Ophelia Neal

1914 – 2013

Ophelia Neal entered final rest on April 29, 2013.

She was born on March 24, 1914 at Pendleton, Texas

to Webb H. and Flora A. Raborn. She now joins her husband of

thirty-three years, Charles M. Neal Sr, who predeceased her in 1988,

sister-Lorene; brothers-Walter Hugh, Bonnie, Virgil and Delbert; her son-

Carl Dean Proctor; and grandson-Michael D. Proctor. She is

survived by two sisters, Ovella Phillips of Belton and Violet

Dunn-Markle of Burnet. She is survived by daughter-in-law, Alice

Proctor of Aurora, Nebraska and son, Charles M. Neal, Jr. and

wife Judy of Porter, Texas. All are eternally grateful for the

love, care, guidance and support provided by Ophelia over the

many years of her life. She was especially proud of her

grandchildren, Richard Proctor of Grand Island, Nebraska; Karen

Steward and husband, Buford, of Kingwood, Texas; and Terri L.

Therrien and husband, Paul of Houston. The lights of her life in

her later life were her great grandchildren, Buford(Trey) and

Sydne Steward; and Neal D. Watson.

“Sally” as Ophelia was known to friends and co-workers was a

licensed vocational nurse, a vocation she practiced through age

eighty-five. She was a former long-time resident of the Harlandale

section of San Antonio and Sunrise Beach on Lake LBJ; but resided

at various times at Taft, Pleasanton and Livermore, California; Manilla, Philippine Islands; and while employed with the Army & Air Force

Exchange Service at Topeka, Kansas; Lincoln, Nebraska and Fort Worth,

Texas. She was an unabashedly patriotic American and proud Texan,

who during WW II briefly worked assembling heavy bomb ordnance

at the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant at McGregor, Texas. The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Jessica Fritz and Penny A. Balch; and the staff and neighbors in the Garden Gate Apartments for their devoted

and loving care of Ophelia over the last decade of her life.

Funeral services will be at the Clements—Wilcox Chapel in Burnet, Texas on Saturday, May, 4, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Liberty Hill Cemetery. Arrangements by Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home in Burnet, Texas.