Opal Jo

Shifflett

Opal Jo Corre ll Shifflett , 92, lifelong resident of Sweetwater, passed away Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at Sw eetwater Health care Center.

Graveside services will be at 10 :00 A.M. Thursday, March 9, 2023 at Sweetwater Cemetery with Mik e Ensminger officiating. Interment will follow directed by McCoy Funeral Home. A family visitation will be held from 5 to 7 P.M. Wednesday evening at McCoy Funeral Home.

Opal was born January 11, 1931 in Pal a va (Fisher County) Texas to Jack and Allie B. (Y oakum) Correll. She spent all of her life in Pal a va and Sweetwater and graduated from Sweetwater Newman High School. She married Joe Shifflett May 28, 1949 in Sweetwater, TX. She was employed at several Sweetwater b u s inesses including Bowen Drug Store, Callender Drug Store, Simmons Memorial Hospi tal, Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital, and  I.G.A. Grocery. Opal was a member of the Church of Christ.

She is survived by a son, Jerry Shifflett of Amarillo, TX, two daughters, Linda Peeples and husband Del of Dalhart, TX , Donna Ashley and husband Ronny of Sweetwater, TX, seven grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.

Opal was preceded in death by her husband Joe Shifflett, her parents, t hree sisters, Kay Darnell, Frances Crow, Shirley Ishm , two brothers, Donald Ray Correll and Jackie Correll.