Mabel Pauline Oliver |
Household 72/72. Robert Oliver, head, age 39, printer in newspaper, born Minnesota; Flossy Oliver, wife, age 35, born New York; Mable Oliver, daughter, age 13, born Minnesota; Bennie Oliver, son, age 11, born Minnesota; Kenneth Oliver, son, age 8, born Minnesota.
Churland Boulevard, household 10/12. Robert A. Oliver, age 29, printer at newspaper, born Minnesota; Flossy Oliver, wife, age 24, born New York; Mabel Oliver, daughter, age 3 years and 9 months, born Minnesota; Lawrence Oliver, son, age 1 year and 3 months, born Minnesota; Ervin Schoffner, boarder, age 22, born Minnesota.
Mabel Pauline Oliver, 89, formerly of Walker, Minn., died Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005, in Roseville, Minn.
She was born May 8, 1916, in Walker to Robert A. and Flossie Oliver, who founded the newspaper that later became The Pilot-Independent. She graduated at the head of her class from Walker High School and from Hamline University in St. Paul in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in economics. She later lived in Silver Spring, Md, and worked in the Washington, D.C., area for many years at the legal offices of her uncle, Eli Oliver. She was a retired longtime employee of Labor Bureau of the Midwest in Washington, D.C. In the late 1990s she moved back to Minnesota.
She is survived by one brother, Kenneth Oliver of Roseville; two nieces, Kay Oliver of Washington D.C., and Kristine Cary of Arcadia, Calif.; one nephew, Dr. Lawrence Oliver of Rochester, Minn.; and extended family and friends.
Funeral services were held Nov. 12 at the Community Church of Walker. Interment was at Evergreen Cemetery.
First Memorial Funeral Home in Brooklyn Park handled arrangements.