Opal A. Harry, age 95, passed away at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, at Via Christi Village surrounded by her family. She was born on a farm near Asbury, Missouri, to Alva and Bertha (Sandy) Riley on May 6, 1930. After graduating from high school, she attended summer school at Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburg, passed a teacher’s exam, and started teaching in a rural one-room school.