Opal believes that she was adopted into the Whiteley family when she was very young. She thinks her biological father has died and is now an angel in heaven, and so the name, Angel Father.

Elsie and her young husband are Opal's aunt and uncle.

"I had the remembers that I had to do something."

Opal went to the Walden School from 1904-1905. It had only one classroom for students from grades 1 thorough grade 6. Teachers would get one group of students working on an assignment and then teach another subject to the other students. One teacher usually taught 30 or more students of all different grades and subjects.