Opal Dickson Thomas

Opal Dickson Thomas, 92, died Friday, July 3, 2009, in Amarillo.

Services were held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in Hedley United Methodist Church in Hedley with Rev. Ervin Emmert, Pastor, and Bill Carson, officiating. Burial was held at Rowe Cemetery in Hedley. Services were under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Mrs. Thomas was born April 18, 1917, in Hedley, to John Green and Mollie Dukes Dickson. She attended Hedley school and was employed at Polk Street Methodist Church and later by Amarillo Independent School District from which she retired in 1982. She married Joe Thomas on January 22, 1938, in Memphis. They were married for forty years.

She was preceded in death by four sisters, Jewel Quisenberry, Fay Dickson, Mae Wilson Thornberry, and Golden Johnson; one nephew, Richard Dickson; and her beloved husband Joe Thomas.

Survivors include one brother, J.M. Dickson of Turkey; three nieces, Peggy Struble of Toccoa, GA, Dixie Gartrell of Houston, and Linda Phelan of Austin; three nephews, Jack Quisenberry of Tyler, John Dickson of Hedley, and Tony Mikesell of St. Louis, Missouri; and special friends, Helen McMillen and Linda Boyett of Amarillo and Marie Cruse of Turkey, Texas; she also has many great nieces, nephews, numerous relatives, and friends.

The family requests memorials be to Rowe Cemetery Association.

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