ESSIE OLIVER

CLAREMORE-Services for Essie Miller Oliver, 99, Claremore, formerly of Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Saturday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel in Ada. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Friday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Oliver died Friday, November 7, 2008 in Claremore. She was born July 10, 1909 at Stonewall, Oklahoma to Walter Edwin and Nellie Dee Henderson Miller. She attended schools at Stonewall, Ahloso, Union Hill, Horace Mann and graduated from Ada High School.

She married Hillard Wood Oliver October 9, 1929 at Atoka, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on May 3, 1992. Mrs. Oliver was a homemaker but worked at the East Columbia Department Store in downtown Los Angeles, California during the war years. She was a member of Oak Avenue Baptist Church in Ada and the Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include a daughter-in-law, JimAnn Oliver, Claremore; grandchildren, Angela Gentz and husband Don, Richardson, Texas, Kelton Oliver and wife Michale, Anchorage, Alaska, Retha Oliver, San Antonio, TX, Lisa Hickey, Temple, TX, and Lanette Oliver Miller, San Antonio, TX; ten great grandchildren; and two brothers, Lloyd Miller and wife Leona, Ada, and Milburn "Bib" Miller and wife Wanda, Tulsa.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a son, Estil Hillard Oliver in 2001, three sisters, Ruby Dell McFarland, Isabell McNinch, and Cecil Blankenship, and three brothers, Clifford Miller, J. W. "Dub" Miller and Edwin Miller.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada