Opal Grace Walden, a resident of San Marcos, died Aug. 30, 2008, at age 85.

Funeral services are Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wimberley. Burial will be at 12:15 p.m. at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio.

Mrs. Walden was born Feb. 27, 1923, in Wayne, Kan., to Floyd and Jennie Abrams.

She is survived by four children, Bob Gieber, of Des Moines, Iowa, Donna Kisby and husband, Don, of Clifton, Kan., Michael Gieber and wife, Janice Mullenax, of Cypress, and Tami Walther, and husband, Craig, of The Woodlands; eight grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles T. "Smokey" Walden; by a brother, Jerome Slipsager; a sister, Elsie Schmidt; a son, Fred Gieber; and a daughter, Carol Conrad.

Thomason Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.