TITLE:  Joseph Eldridge Oliver

SOURCE: The Beaufort Gazette, June 30, 2001

SUBMITTED: The Beaufort Gazette

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Joseph Eldridge Oliver 

HARDEEVILLE - Joseph Eldridge Oliver, 78, died Friday, June 29, 2001, 
in St. Joseph's Hospital, Savannah. Sauls Funeral Home, Ridgeland, is 
in charge. (The Beaufort Gazette, June 30,2001)

Joseph Eldridge Oliver 
Joseph Eldridge Oliver, 78, of Hardeeville died Friday, June 29, 2001, 
at St. Joseph's Hospital following a long illness. Services will be at 
11 a.m. Tuesday at Hardeeville Baptist Church with burial in Beaufort 
National Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. 
Monday at Sauls Funeral Home in Ridgeland. Mr. Oliver was born August 
3, 1922, in Lepanto, Ark., a son of Samuel Monroe Oliver and Bertha 
Hightower Oliver. He was a Realtor, land developer and member of 
Hardeeville Baptist Church. He owned and operated the Pink House 
Restaurant House until it burned. He was founder and president of 
Hardeeville Development Corp. and developed Hardeeville Industrial 
Park. He was a former chairman of the Jasper County Development Board 
and former president of the Hardeeville Chamber of Commerce. He was 
founder and former president of the Hardeeville Merchant's Association,
a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and part of the occupation force 
in the Phillipines and Japan. Survivors include his wife, Marian H. 
Oliver of Hardeeville; two sons, Joey D. Oliver of Hardeeville and 
David-Joe Oliver of Dandridge, Tenn.; two daughters Kathleen Oliver 
Wilson of Hardeeville and Karen Metsendorf of Garden City, Ga.; a 
sister, Katie Williams of Nashville, Tenn.; four grandchildren and 
four great-grandchildren. The family suggests those who wish make 
memorials to the Joe Oliver Memorial Fund; P.O. Box 338; Hardeeville, 
SC; 29927. (The Beaufort Gazette, July 3, 2001)
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