Marlys Grace Opie (Besser, Baldwin) age 91 born April 14, 1927, in Pomona, CA, passed away on December 8, 2018, in Prescott Valley, AZ.
A longtime resident of Las Vegas, Marlys attended Las Vegas Grade School and Las Vegas High School. In 1948, Marlys married Hubert H. Opie and they resided in Las Vegas, NV, for many years where she enjoyed being a wife, mom and homemaker. She returned to work in 1970 at Denny’s on the Las Vegas Strip and also truly enjoyed her time employed at the Las Vegas Country Club until her retirement in 1989.
After her husband’s death in 1990, she became an accomplished china painter and was very active at the Dula Senior Center in Las Vegas where she made many new and cherished friends while enjoying numerous crafts and card games. She was a talented craft lady and loved to knit and crochet, as well as a skilled card player with a great sense of humor, especially when she won!
Marlys was a sincerely beautiful lady, and a loving mother and grandmother who greatly loved all of her family. She will be greatly missed by all those whose lives she touched.