PEGGY ANN ALCORN OLIVER, Age 71, a resident of Charleston, MO died Thursday, March 22, 2012 at the East Prairie Nursing Center in East Prairie, MO.

Born October 27, 1940, in rural Sikeston, MO, to the late Delmar H. Alcorn Sr. and Helen Marie Wyman Alcorn, she was a graduate of Charleston High School where she had been active in the Glee Club. She studied at William Woods College at Fulton, MO where she pursued an education in her love for music and then later at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. In 1980, the family moved to Marion, AR where she was a member of the First Baptist Church. They returned to Charleston in 1998.

On September 23, 1978, she married Samuel Rush Oliver, Sr., who survives of the home.

Also surviving are: two sons and one daughter in law, Jason and Cindy Oliver of Marion, AR and Samuel Rush Oliver, Jr. of Charleston; two daughters and one son in law, Helen Oliver and Jeff Renaud of Charleston and Martha Oliver also of Charleston; two brothers, Danny Alcorn of Murfreesboro, TN and Delmar H. "Sonny" Alcorn, Jr., of Sikeston, MO; two sisters, Pam Wilson of Washington, MO and Judy Hathhorn of Sikeston, MO; five grandchildren, Mary Elizabeth Oliver, Shelby Oliver, Benjamin Oliver, Ann-Oliver Renaud and Falen Province.

Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Monday, March 26, 2012 at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston where funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday. Her brother, Danny Alcorn, will officiate.

Interment will follow in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery near Charleston under the direction of the McMikle Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be: John W.L. Goodin, Sonny Alcorn, John Robert Wilson, Joe Oliver, Homer Oliver and David Oliver.

Online condolences may be shared at www.mcmiklefuneralhome.com.

Memorials may be made to
Clara Drinkwater Newnam Library
105 E. Marshall Street
Charleston, MO 63834