Funeral services for Opal Rivers, 94, of Muskogee will be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at Greenhill Mausoleum Chapel in Sapulpa, OK with Gene Thompson officiating. Burial will be in Greenhill Memorial Garden Cemetery in Sapulpa under the direction of Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home. Opal Rivers was born May 19, 1914 in Fame, Oklahoma the daughter of John Highers and Sally Elizabeth Highers and died November 2, 2008 in Muskogee. She attended schools in Claremore, OK. She married Johnnie Rivers. She was a Baptist and a land developer and sales person. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Johnnie Rivers and a granddaughter, Holly Lynn Roady. Survivors include her daughter Donna Youngblood and husband, W.L. of Muskogee, OK; son, Don Davis and wife Sandy of Fort Worth, TX; step-daughter, Delores Roady and husband Chuck of Nipoma, CA; special friends, Wilma and Conrad Mitchell of Sapulpa, OK and Lou Thompson, of Muskogee, grandchildren, Linda and Billy White of Fort Gibson, OK Jerry and Kellie Youngblood of Fort Gibson, OK, Lisa and David Robertson of Arlington, TX, Robert and Vanessa Howard of Arlington, TX; Suzanne and Greg Orsolini of California, Chuckie Roady of Oregon; sixteen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
