COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Don Oliver, 83, sports information director at Baylor University from 1947-50 and again from 1970-77, passed away Saturday, Aug. 1. A memorial service will be held at Fellowship Baptist Church in Brenham, Texas, on Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 10:30 a.m.
Born July 15, 1926, he grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. He attended Corpus Christi Junior College, Southwestern Louisiana Institute and Baylor University. He was accepted into the Naval Air Corps in 1943 and due to illness received a medical discharge in 1945.
Oliver was married to the former Margaret Hering in Lubbock, Texas, and they were married for 57 years before she passed away on Nov. 16, 2007. They had two children, Penny King and husband, Clark of College Station, Texas, and Mark Oliver and wife, Pam of Georgetown, Texas.
A newspaper sports columnist for many years working at the
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, T
emple Telegram,
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, and
Abilene Reporter-News, Oliver served as editor of Golf World Magazine in the 1950’s.
Oliver was an assistant sports information director at Baylor in 1946 before being named the SID in 1947. He was the last surviving Baylor staff member to see Baylor play for the national basketball championship against Adolf Rupp’s Kentucky Wildcats in 1948. He received a ring commemorating Baylor’s first Southwest Conference football championship in 1974.
An avid hunter, fisherman and sports enthusiast, Oliver worked with Educators Credit Union for several years after retiring from Baylor.
The family wishes to thank the staff at Kruse Village in Brenham, Texas, where Don and Margaret spent their last years.
The family also asks that any memorial donations be sent in Don’s memory to Fellowship Baptist Church, 2000 FM 389, Brenham, TX 77833.
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