In Honor of Women's History On the day she was born, history had already determined her destiny. A destiny fraught with abandonment, want, servitude, and reward. “OPAL: Spirit of a Woman,” is the story of Mary Opal Fetters/George; a courageous women who lost her mother to childbirth at the tender age of seven, was sold into servitude by a father who no longer wished to care for her...and forced into child labor in another state for many years. In spite of all the odds stacked against her—she championed a legacy of grace. This is her story.