MARLYS OPIE

Marlys Grace Opie (Besser, Baldwin,) age 91, born April 14, 1927, in Pomona, CA, passed away 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, she married Hubert H. Opie and they resided in Las Vegas. Marlys was a mom and homemaker for many years. She enjoyed very much the time she was employed at the Las Vegas Country Club until she retired in 1989. Marlys moved to Prescott, in 2005, residing in Victorian Estates and the Las Fuentes Senior Resort community, until she moved to her grandson’s home in September 2018, under home hospice care. Marlys was preceded in death by her husband, Hubert H. Opie; mother, Ruth Anna Baldwin Strange; father, Gale Fulton Besser; and sister, Roberta Strange. She is survived by her daughter, Susan Fields (Jack) of Prescott Valley; grandchildren, Jack Robert Fields of Prescott Valley, MarJeanne Fields Buckner (Skyler) of Phoenix and Jack William Fields (Stephanie) of Denver; brother, Robert Strange (Ruthie) of Solana Beach, CA; sisters, Norma Larned (Michie) of Upland, CA, Joyce Keller (Chayne) of Dateland, AZ and Jerene Entzminger (Paul) of Meridian, ID; sister-in-law, Helen Wainwright of El Paso, TX; and many nieces; nephews; and loving extended family members. Services and burial will be at Palm Mortuary and Mausoleum in Las Vegas. The Fields family would like to extend our gratitude to the staff at Kindred Home Hospice and Kindred Home Health, Prescott for their attentiveness and exceptional loving care. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to the charity of choice or as a memorial under the name of Marlys Opie to Kindred Hospice Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Funeral Arrangements entrusted to Ruffner Wakelin Funeral Homes. Please log on to www.ruffnerwakelin. com to sign Marlys’s guestbook and share a memory with the family.