BILLY GENE OLIVER

CHARLESTON -- Funeral for Billy Gene Oliver will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Opportunity Church of God in Christ. Steve Betts will officiate with burial in the Oak Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call at Sparks Funeral Home from 7-8 p.m. today.

Oliver, 58, died Thursday, April 30, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Jan. 29, 1940, at Hillhouse, Miss., the son of Edgar and Mary Hampton Oliver.

Survivors include his mother; a daughter, Monica Oliver of Country Club, Ill.; four brothers, George McRay of St. Louis, Christopher Oliver of Charleston, Wayne Oliver of Chicago and Harold Oliver, whose address is unknown; four sisters, Dorothy Allen of South Village, Ill., Edna Ward of Richland Park, Ill., Irness Pratt and Bobbie Dunigan of Charleston; and several grandchildren.