Funeral service 2:00PM Wednesday at McEvoy Funeral Home with Bro. Randy Stephens of Sulphur Well Church of Christ officiating, burial will follow at Mount Zion Church of Christ Cemetery in Buchanan. Named as pallbearers are Joe Carter Oliver, Terry Oliver, Lawrence Jackson, Donnie Oliver, Gary Elkins and Paul Henry McDaniel. Visitation 4:00 - 7:00PM Tuesday and after 1:00PM Wednesday. He was the son of the late James Lilburn Oliver, Sr. and Clara Hays Oliver. On December 16, 1949 he married Moretta Herndon Oliver, she survives in Paris. Survived by a brother: Robert Earl (Betty) Oliver, Paris; nieces: Connie Bell, Robin Herndon, Debbie Elkins, Anita Michael; nephews: Donald Earl Oliver, Lawrence Allen Jackson; great and great-great nieces and nephews. Preceded by a sister: Helen Oliver; brother: James L. Oliver, Jr. in WWII and a nephew: William Earl Jackson. Mr. Oliver was a 1934 graduate of Buchanan High School then attended Tolers Business College. In 1937 he worked at his uncles service station in Nashville, in 1940 went to work for TVA in Charlotte, North Carolina until he was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1941. Carter served for 4 years in many places including Algiers and Fedala, North Africa; Licata, Sicily; Salerno, Italy; Cavaliere, Southern France; Anzio, Mount Cassino and Milan, Italy; Stuttgart, Germany; and Innsbruck, Austria. Returning home in 1947 Carter bought a convenience store located in the Sally Lanes building. In 1944 Carter attended Lexington University in KY in order to teach a course in Veterans farm training in Henry County. He also worked with the TN Gas Transmission Company in Kentucky, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Upon returning home again Carter bought the house on Shady Grove Rd. where he and his wife have lived for almost 30 years. He worked in Henry County as a U.S. Mail Carrier, Carpenter and Farmer and was a member of the Bethlehem Church of Christ. Memorials may be made to: Sulphur Well Church of Christ Scholarship Fund, Sulphur Well Church of Christ Food Bank or Mt. Zion Church of Christ Cemetery Fund c/o: Mackie Gallimore.