Oliver/Olivier, John Tice 1892-1982

OLIVIER, OLIVER, BONNEMA, GAGE, VANDEN BRINK, ZEUTENHORST, MOUW, KRAAYENBRINK, VANDER SCHAAF, AGESON

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 3/29/2008 at 19:35:16

From the Funeral Folder of John T. Oliver:

In Memory of John T. Oliver
Born: May 6, 1892, Hull, Iowa
Died: March 20, 1982
Services at the Central Reformed Church on Tuesday, March 23, 1982 at 1:30 P.M.
Rev. Albert Ten Clay - Officiating
Special Music: Solo by Irv Mouw singing "Where The Roses Never Fade: and "The Old Rugged Cross"
Organist: Marge Beernink
Casket Bearers: Robert Ageson, Roy Gage, Dale Kraayenbrink, Evan Kraayenbrink, Jon M. Oliver, Jay Oliver, Jim Oliver, Jeff Oliver
Burial in The Memory Gardens Cemetery on Tuesday, March 23, 1982.
Arrangements by Vander Ploeg's

Obituary:

Mr. John T. Oliver passed away Saturday afternoon in Rock Rapids at the age of eighty-nine years. On February 3, 1915, in Sioux Center he was united in marriage to Mary Bonnema who now survives. To this union eight children were born: Kathleen, Mrs. Duane Gage of Lester, Ia.; Vivian, Mrs. Ceel Van Den Brink of East Lansing, Mich.; Phyllis, Mrs. John Zeutenhorst of Orange City, Ia.; Shirley, Mrs. Lorenz Mouw of Orange City, Ia.; and Roger of Rock Rapids, Ia. One son, Jack, and one daughter, Virginia, Mrs. Henrich Kraayenbrink, preceded him death. He is also survived by twenty-eight grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, one brother, Billie Oliver of Hull, Iowa and one sister, Nellie Vander Schaaf of Beaver Creek, Minn.

Mr. Oliver ran a dray line and served as an electrician in Sioux Center until 1938 when the couple purchased a grocery store in Lester. After four years they returned to Sioux Center where he was custodian at the Sioux Center Public School until his retirement. In 1978 they moved to Rock Rapids where they became residents of Lyon Manor. His passing is mourned by many friends and relatives.

(Note--John's eighth child, a daugther named Vivian, married to Harold Ageson, is not mentioned in his obit.)