Opal Haas, 94, died peacefully at Parkview Nursing Home, Bolivar, Missouri, at 2:20 p.m. on Monday, April 20, 2015. Mrs. Haas was born October 18, 1920 to John Elmer and Helen Elizabeth McKinzie. She graduated from high school in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, in 1936. She met her husband, Norman at a dance at Tune Town (the dance spot in St. Louis) during World War II. Opal was a seamstress and a quilter. She enjoyed crocheting, reading, watching old movies, and traveling with her husband during their retirement years. She taught Sunday school in a non-denominational Pentecostal church and enjoyed playing piano and singing. She loved genealogy, spending long hours researching her family's and her husband's family history. She wrote a book for each side of the family. She was a nurse by profession. She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman, her parents, her brother Raymond who was killed in World War II, and two sisters, Betty Lou Wilson and Orneda Metzgar. Survivors include her daughters, Noella Thomas of Bolivar; Rita and her husband Milton Horne of University Place, Washington; a son, Gary and his wife Hilda Haas of Anchorage, Alaska. She had six grandchildren, David Ybarra (Deanna), Janet Wolff (Jon), Carole Horne, Eric Haas (Jennifer), Rory Haas, Corbett Haas (Rachel); plus eight great-grandchildren. Visitation will be Friday, April 24, 2015 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am in Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home, Springfield, Missouri, funeral service to follow at 11:00 am, with the Reverend Bill Nichols officiating. Burial will be at Missouri Veterans Cemetery, 5201 S. Southwood, Springfield, Missouri at 1:00 pm.