Opal B. Brady

Entered into eternal rest on the morning of February 5, 2011, Opal B. Brady, widow of Homer C. Brady recently of Hanahan, SC.  The relatives and friends of Mrs. Brady are invited to attend her funeral service at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 in the chapel of Townes Funeral Home, 215 West Main Street, Danville, Virginia. Interment will follow at Danville Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.

Born on March 31, 1925 in Westerville, Ohio, Opal was a daughter of Ernest and Emma Corbin Bailey.  While visiting Los Angles, California, Opal met the love of her life Homer on March 30, 1945. It was a fairy tale courtship. They married the next day on her birthday. The handsome young Navy man boarded a ship to the South Pacific and the young beautiful brunette boarded a train back to her home in Westerville, Ohio, now a war bride. Homer and Opal made their home and raised their family in Danville, Virginia. Their marriage lasted 66 years until his death in August 2010. She always referred to him as "Honey".

Opal will be remembered for her strength, her smile, humor and devotion to family and friends. The family would like to express their heart felt gratitude to the Hospice of Charleston and special friend Evelyn H. Brothers for the devotion, dedication and care given to her.

In addition to her husband, Homer, she was also preceded in death by her daughter Connie Faye Brady Donevan. Opal is survived by her daughter, Patricia Phillips and her husband John of Hanahan, SC; two brothers: Paul Bailey of Blacklick, OH and Alvin Bailey and his wife Wanda of Westerville, OH; two sisters: Evelyn Surratt and her husband Jack of Westerville, OH and Norma Neill and her husband Richard of Marysville, OH; three grandchildren: Kenneth Slossen and Jeff Slossen both of Summerville, SC and Richard Slossen and his wife Barbara of Portland, OR; three great-grandchildren: Richard Slossen and Heather Slossen both of Portland, OR and Jeffery Orr of Summerville, SC and one great-great-grandson, Camden of Summerville, SC. 

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association SC Chapter Lowcountry Region, 2090 Executive Hall Road, Suite 130, Charleston, SC 29407.