Sterling Gazette 14 August 1941 5;1-2
O. A. OLIVER, FORMER RESIDENT HERE, DIES AT CALIFORNIA HOME
News has been received of the death of O. A. Oliver, 90, a former resident of Sterling and Rock Falls and business associate of the late N. G. Van Sant, who died at his late home in Pasadena, Calif., Monday night, Aug. 11. He had been confined to his bed for several months as the result of influenza last spring. The funeral and committal was at Pasadena, the grave being by the side of his wife, who died in 1938. Mr. Oliver is survived by two daughters, Maude and Edith, and one son, Jay, who visited here a few years ago.
The name of Mr. Oliver will be familiar to those who read a sketch he wrote in the Van Sant birthday edition of the Gazette in 1936. On account of the close relationship of the two men, friends from boyhood, this sketch proved particularly interesting. The two old friends had a reunion each year in California.
Messrs. Oliver and Van Sant first met in September 1869, at Fulton, as both young men were on their way to Mt. Vernon, IA., to matriculated at Cornell college. They were fellow students and workers in the Methodist church. Mr. Van Sant had entered college on his return from service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Oliver and Van Sant had their first business venture together as partners in a grocery in Rock Falls, where they were successful. Mr. Oliver wrote. In later years when Mr. Van Sant considered entering the banking business, Mr. Oliver assisted him in the examination of the bank.
The sketch which Mr. Oliver wrote of his old friend and partner was such a one as intimate companions might give of each other in reminiscing.
O. A. OLIVER, FORMER RESIDENT HERE, DIES AT CALIFORNIA HOME
News has been received of the death of O. A. Oliver, 90, a former resident of Sterling and Rock Falls and business associate of the late N. G. Van Sant, who died at his late home in Pasadena, Calif., Monday night, Aug. 11. He had been confined to his bed for several months as the result of influenza last spring. The funeral and committal was at Pasadena, the grave being by the side of his wife, who died in 1938. Mr. Oliver is survived by two daughters, Maude and Edith, and one son, Jay, who visited here a few years ago.
The name of Mr. Oliver will be familiar to those who read a sketch he wrote in the Van Sant birthday edition of the Gazette in 1936. On account of the close relationship of the two men, friends from boyhood, this sketch proved particularly interesting. The two old friends had a reunion each year in California.
Messrs. Oliver and Van Sant first met in September 1869, at Fulton, as both young men were on their way to Mt. Vernon, IA., to matriculated at Cornell college. They were fellow students and workers in the Methodist church. Mr. Van Sant had entered college on his return from service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Oliver and Van Sant had their first business venture together as partners in a grocery in Rock Falls, where they were successful. Mr. Oliver wrote. In later years when Mr. Van Sant considered entering the banking business, Mr. Oliver assisted him in the examination of the bank.
The sketch which Mr. Oliver wrote of his old friend and partner was such a one as intimate companions might give of each other in reminiscing.
Sterling Gazette 14 August 1941 5;1-2
O. A. OLIVER, FORMER RESIDENT HERE, DIES AT CALIFORNIA HOME
News has been received of the death of O. A. Oliver, 90, a former resident of Sterling and Rock Falls and business associate of the late N. G. Van Sant, who died at his late home in Pasadena, Calif., Monday night, Aug. 11. He had been confined to his bed for several months as the result of influenza last spring. The funeral and committal was at Pasadena, the grave being by the side of his wife, who died in 1938. Mr. Oliver is survived by two daughters, Maude and Edith, and one son, Jay, who visited here a few years ago.
The name of Mr. Oliver will be familiar to those who read a sketch he wrote in the Van Sant birthday edition of the Gazette in 1936. On account of the close relationship of the two men, friends from boyhood, this sketch proved particularly interesting. The two old friends had a reunion each year in California.
Messrs. Oliver and Van Sant first met in September 1869, at Fulton, as both young men were on their way to Mt. Vernon, IA., to matriculated at Cornell college. They were fellow students and workers in the Methodist church. Mr. Van Sant had entered college on his return from service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Oliver and Van Sant had their first business venture together as partners in a grocery in Rock Falls, where they were successful. Mr. Oliver wrote. In later years when Mr. Van Sant considered entering the banking business, Mr. Oliver assisted him in the examination of the bank.
The sketch which Mr. Oliver wrote of his old friend and partner was such a one as intimate companions might give of each other in reminiscing.
O. A. OLIVER, FORMER RESIDENT HERE, DIES AT CALIFORNIA HOME
News has been received of the death of O. A. Oliver, 90, a former resident of Sterling and Rock Falls and business associate of the late N. G. Van Sant, who died at his late home in Pasadena, Calif., Monday night, Aug. 11. He had been confined to his bed for several months as the result of influenza last spring. The funeral and committal was at Pasadena, the grave being by the side of his wife, who died in 1938. Mr. Oliver is survived by two daughters, Maude and Edith, and one son, Jay, who visited here a few years ago.
The name of Mr. Oliver will be familiar to those who read a sketch he wrote in the Van Sant birthday edition of the Gazette in 1936. On account of the close relationship of the two men, friends from boyhood, this sketch proved particularly interesting. The two old friends had a reunion each year in California.
Messrs. Oliver and Van Sant first met in September 1869, at Fulton, as both young men were on their way to Mt. Vernon, IA., to matriculated at Cornell college. They were fellow students and workers in the Methodist church. Mr. Van Sant had entered college on his return from service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Oliver and Van Sant had their first business venture together as partners in a grocery in Rock Falls, where they were successful. Mr. Oliver wrote. In later years when Mr. Van Sant considered entering the banking business, Mr. Oliver assisted him in the examination of the bank.
The sketch which Mr. Oliver wrote of his old friend and partner was such a one as intimate companions might give of each other in reminiscing.
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