Ima C. McAnally, 83, died Friday. Services are 10:30 a.m. Monday in Gene Adams Funeral Service Chapel, Bethany, Oklahoma. Burial follows at Rosedale Cemetery in Ada, Oklahoma.

Mrs. McAnally died April 1, 1997. She was born April 17, 1914, to Hiram and Maggie Coop McSpadden in Arkansas.

While she was still young, her family moved near Ada. She attended college in Ada but finished at the University of Oklahoma. She received her master's degree at Central State University in Edmond. It was in Ada that she met Kenneth E. McAnally where they were married in 1936. To this union were born three children; LeDon, Carolyn and DeWayne.

She taught school in Oklahoma until World War II, then moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Since there were five new Government Elementary Schools, she helped set up five school libraries and was librarian at one school.

After the war, they moved back to Ada where she helped her husband run a photography studio and camera store for 20 years. She was president of the Parent Teacher Association of Ada Schools and worked in the Nazarene Church as children's director, Sunday school teacher and missionary society worker.

In 1966, they moved to Bethany where she taught second grade at Western Oaks Elementary School in the same room for 18 years. She loved children and those years of teaching were special to her. She was a member of Bethany First Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include her husband, Kenneth E. McAnally; two sons, LeDon and DeWayne both of the city; a daughter Carolyn of Lexington, North Carolina; a sister, Oma Odum of California; and four grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and loving friends. She was a special lady and she will be missed.