Funeral service for Anthony Lewis Oliver, Sr. will be 9:30 A.M. Thursday, September 13, 2018 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Kathy Cruikshank, House of Christ Ministries officiating.

Burial with military honors will follow at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin.

The family will greet friends from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Anthony Lewis Oliver, Sr., age 62, departed this life peacefully at home on Saturday, September 8, 2018 in the arms of his loving wife Diana of forty-five years in Lawton, Oklahoma.

He was born on June 24, 1956 to Dorothy Elizabeth Oliver and the late Richmond Oliver, Sr. in Alamance County, Burlington, North Carolina.

He served his country honorably from 1974 to 1992.  He was a man of strong character, faith and loyalty.  A Shining light to all those that were blessed enough to know and be loved by him.  Anthony truly lived life to the fullest through simple pleasures.  His love for all his nephews and nieces, cousins, family and friends always brought joy and happiness to his heart.  Those traits will be carried on by the lives he touched.

He is survived by his wife, Diana, of Lawton, his beloved mother, Dorothy Elizabeth Oliver and brother, Richmond Oliver, Jr. both of Burlington, North Carolina, loving daughter and grandson, Felicita Daniels, of Dallas, Texas and John Davis Daniels, III, of Oklahoma City, and adoring son, Anthony Lewis Oliver, Jr. and his wife, Francesca, of Greensboro, North Carolina.

We will miss you always. You will never leave our hearts.