Services will be at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at First Baptist Church, Canyon, Texas, with Dr. David Lowrie, Jr. officiating. Burial will be at Llano Cemetery in Amarillo. Family will recieve friends for a Visitation from 6:00-8:00P.M. on Monday, May 8, 2006 at Brooks Chapel in Canyon. Oliver was born February 22, 1915, in Wolfe City, Hunt County, Texas, to James William and Solia Muncy Diggs. Oliver attended school in Hunt County at Wolfe City and Fairlie and graduated from Greenville High School in Greenville, Texas, in 1934. He received a BS degree from East Texas State Teachers College in Commerce in 1937 and a Masters Degree from the University of Texas in Austin. Oliver did graduate work at Texas A & M in Bryan and West Texas State College in Canyon. He received his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU)designation in 1955. Oliver was an educator and continued to dream about teaching long after he retired. His career spanned 40 years and included instruction in typing, math, basketball and vocational subjects. He taught at Carey, Childress County, Texas from 1937-1941, and was principal at Sierra Blanca, Hudspeth County, Texas from 1941-1942. Oliver left teaching for war work during World War II, working at Pantex Ordnance Plant in Amarillo from 1942-1943. From 1943-1946, he was a civilian instructor in airplane mechanics at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Love Field in Dallas, and in Denver, Colorado. After the war, he taught for one year in Sweetwater, Texas, from 1947-1948. In 1948, he returned to Amarillo where he taught ICT at Amarillo High School for 30 years. He was teaching there when the building on South Polk Street burned down on Easter Sunday, March 1, 1970. Oliver was an honorary private of Company C, 111th Engineer, Texas National Guard from 1933-1941. He was a member and substitute Sunday School teacher at First Baptist Church Canyon and became a Christian when he was in the ninth grade. Oliver was a member auditor of Canyon Senior Citizens Center and enjoyed playing 88 each day. He was a member and past president of Canyon Retired Teachers Association. Oliver was an avid Dallas Cowboys fan often traveling to watch spring workouts. Oliver married Linnie Beatrice Mills July 29, 1941, at Parnell, Hall County, Texas. He married Willie Avary Osborn May 26, 1987 in Canyon, Texas. Preceding him in death were Linnie in 1986 his wife of 45 years; his parents James Diggs in 1953 and Solia in 1917 when Oliver was two years old; three brothers, James Wilburn Diggs, Grady Diggs, and Euell King Diggs; four half sisters, Josie Pilkinton, Nell Anderson, Pearl Grover, and Rose Diggs; and one half brother Spencer Diggs. Survivors include: his wife of 19 years, Willie; two sons Bobby Gene Diggs of Round Rock, Texas, and Billy Dean Diggs of Amarillo; one daughter Patricia Ann Diggs of Amarillo; one grandson Brett Dwain Diggs and wife Kate of Arlington, Virginia. The family suggests memorials be to the building fund of Canyon First Baptist Church, 1717 4th Avenue, Canyon, TX 79015 (806) 655-2501 or Canyon Senior Citizens Association, 1719 5th Avenue, Canyon, TX 79015 (806) 655-7197.