THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Monday, May 17, 1999

EAST PALATKA, Fla. -- Celia Joyce Emery Oliver, 58, East Palatka, who died Saturday, May 15, 1999 at her residence following a long illness, will be at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 18, at the College Park Baptist Church, Palatka, with the Rev Tom Pinner and the Rev Steve Swaringen officiating. Burial will follow in the Espanola Cemetery, near Bunnell.
           
Friends may call from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. today (Monday) at Masters Funeral Home, 3015 Crill Ave, Palatka.
           
She was born in St Augustine, grew up near Bunnell, and had been a resident of East Palatka for the past 29 years coming from Bunnell. She was a 1958 graduate of Bunnell High School. She graduated summa cum laude from Stetson University in Deland in 1962 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
           
She had worked as a financial secretary for the Putnam and Flagler County School Boards and for the Flagler County Clerk of Court.
           
She was a member of the College Park Baptist Church in Palatka where she had served as director for the Preschool Department for many years. She had served as a volunteer tutor, manly in reading, at the Browning Pierce Elementary School in East Palatka where she had been recognized as Volunteer of the Year at the school.
           
She was formerly active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a devoted wife, mother, sister, and friend.
           
She was preceded in death by her parents, Harold and Grace Emery. She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Lawrence L Oliver, East Palatka; one daughter, Amanda Grace Oliver, East Palatka; one son, Jonathan Emery Oliver, East Palatka; two sisters, Beverly Emery, Bunnell and Kathryn Rich, Bonifay; two brothers, Quentin Emery and Howard Emery, both of Bunnell; two aunts, Celia Lord, Hastings and Joyce Patrick Willis, Bunnell; and many nieces and nephews.
           
Memorial gifts may be sent to the College Park Baptist Church (for the building fund), 3435 Crill Ave., Palatka, FL 32177 or Hospice of North Central Florida, 3240 Crill Ave., Palatka, FL 32177 or Rodehavers Boys Ranch, HCI, Box RBR, Palatka, FL 32177.
           
Masters Funeral Home of Palatka is in charge of arrangements.