Willis "Pat" Oliver
1945-2009
Times Leader
Willis Patrick �Pat� Oliver, 66, of Madison, Ala., formerly of Lyon County, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, at
Huntsville, Ala., Hospital.
Princeton, Ky.
Aug. 22, 2009
Born Feb. 4, 1943, a son of Trela May McCracken Oliver of Lyon County and the late Ura Boyd Oliver.
He was a 1961 Lyon County High School graduate, a graduate of Murray State University and the University of
Kentucky with degrees in
physics and mathematics and of the University of Alabama at Huntsville with a degree in administrative science, he
joined the U.S.
Army Missile Intelligence Agency as a physicist in 1972, and retired from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency�s
Missile and Space
Intelligence Center as Senior Intelligence Officer/Physicist in 2003.
Survivors in addition to his mother include his wife, Trevah Ann Butler Oliver; a son, Nathan Patrick Oliver of
Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a stepson,
Graham Matthew Burchfield of Portland, Ore.; two sisters, Phyllis Lynn Nicholson of Nashville, Tenn., and Janice
Elaine Thompson of
Oklahoma City, Okla.; and a brother, Herschel Boyd Oliver of Natchitoches, La.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Aug. 18, at 6 p.m. at Berryhill Funeral Home Chapel at Huntsville, Ala.
Expressions of sympthy may take the form of contributions to Kosair Children's Hospital of Louisville, Ky., c/o
Kosair Charities,
P.O. Box 37370, Louisville, Ky., or the Huntsville, Ala., Botanical Garden.