Funeral services will be Friday, May 22, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Cherokee First Baptist Church with Pastor Neil Gordon, Town and Country Christian Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Keith Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

Opal Irene was born on December 5, 1923, to Alma (Ball) and George W. Knott, in Perry Oklahoma, and departed this life on Wednesday, May 22, 2020, in Alva Oklahoma, at the age of 96 years, 5 months and 15 days.

She spent her younger years in Perry, Oklahoma, and after attending college, taught school for a brief time in Avard, Oklaho...