Opal Mae Potts, 81, Hamilton, Mo., passed away on August 5, 2017, at the Cameron Regional Medical Center, Cameron, Mo.

Opal was born on August 29, 1935, in Caldwell County east of the Far West community to Calvin S. and Ethel M. (Thompson) Burnett. She graduated in 1953 from the Hamilton, Mo., high school, and then she attended Guard Business School in St. Joseph. After graduation she worked at the stockyards exchange in St. Joseph, and for an insurance company before beginning her job at Cameron Mutual Insurance in Cameron where she worked from 1962 until retiring in 1998. She worked at the Missouri Veteran's Home in Cameron from 2002 until just recently.

Opal was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic in Hamilton and the church's Altar Society. Opal, in the past, was also a member of the Young Farm Wives.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a niece, Connie.

Opal married Lawrence C. Potts, Jr., (Junior) on May 26, 1962, in Hamilton at the Catholic Church and they were married for 55 years. He survives of the home.

Additional survivors: Son, Steven Potts, Hamilton, and his fiancé, Jenna Clemens and her son, Steven Potts; Brother-Kenneth (Elaine) Burnett, Kingston, Mo.; and 3 nieces-Mickie Cummings, Hamilton; Kendra Tiemann, LaGrange, Mo.; and Karen Grimes, Osborn.

Cremation has been entrusted to Bram Funeral Home, Hamilton.

A private family inurnment will be held at a later date at the Kenney Cemetery, Kidder, Mo.



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