Miss Opal

Miss Opal Macafee
Miss Opal is a major character in "Beany and the Beckoning Road."

She's described as a "gray-haired, pink-cheeked, comfortably plump woman" who smiles at Beany out of "kindly, child-like, blue eyes." She rides out to California with Beany and Johnny in their '41 Dodge.

Miss Opal has no children, but when she refers to her "boys" and Beany asks if she is really a "Miss," she affirms that, saying "I have two or three boys that I've looked after and schooled, and I always call them my boys, But they're grown now and I'm alone, except when one or the other of them come back to visit me."