Mrs. Opal Pullen Snell, age 86 of Adrian passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday afternoon, September 3, 2002.

Born in the Covena Community of Emanuel County, she was one of six children born to the late Charlie J. and Thelma Agnes Stephens Derriso.  She grew up in Covena and Adrian; attending school in Adrian.  She married Roy Lee Pullen and she and their children moved as her husband's U. S. Air Force career required.  They returned to Adrian in the early 1970s and her husband passed away in 1992.  She was always a homemaker, wife and mother.  She enjoyed crocheting, sewing, knitting, embroidery and cooking.  Whenever she wasn't doing something for her family she could be found with a book in her hand.  She was an avid reader of romance and suspense novels and always looked forward to the Book of the Month new releases.

She and her husband were members of Bethsaida Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents and husband, she is preceded in death by her four brothers, Moscow, Edward, Odell and Rustin as well as a great granddaughter, Rosalie Odom.

Mrs. Pullen Snell leaves behind: her children, Ronnie Pullen, Debra Webb, Suzanne Waters and Timothy "Tim" Pullen, all of Adrian, GA, a sister, Della Mae Reese, Swainsboro, GA, ten grandchildren, twenty eight great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 in the Williams Chapel of Sammons Funeral Home with Chaplain Andy Williams officiating.

She will be laid to rest beside Mr. Pullen in the Poplar Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, outside of Adrian, GA.

Her family will receive friends on Tuesday from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the funeral home.

Serving as pallbearers will be her grand and great grandsons, Zachary Pullen, Timothy Blake Pullen, Jamie Giles, Joshua Odom, Austin Rowland and Dillion Phillips.

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SAMMONS FUNERAL HOME, The Tradition Since 1917, Phone 912-529-4411