OLIVE, WAGNER, RICHARDS, RILEY

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Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 06:55:05 :

Independent Journal
Saturday, July 5, 1975
Page 4

JAMES OLIVE
NAOMI OLIVE

A memorial service for James and Naomi Olive will be held I conjunction with the 10 a.m. worship service tomorrow at the Church of the Nativity, 333 Ellen Drive, Marinwood.

The couple disappeared from their Hibiscus Way home in Terra Linda on June 21 and apparently were murdered and cremated. The pair’s adopted daughter, Marlene, 16, and her boyfriend, Charles David Riley, 20, are being held in connection with the slayings.

James Fenton Olive II was born in 1916 in Austin, Pa. When he was eight years old he moved with his parents to Panama where his father was publisher of the Panama American.

Olive received his bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State College, then returned to Panama to work for the Panama Canal Authority.

He entered the Army at the beginning of World War II and served in the China-Burma-India theater and in the Philippines. At the end of the war he was discharged as a major but continued to serve in the Army reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1971.

Olive had worked in the oil business in Panama and San Salvadore and for a time was a real estate broker in St. Petersburg, Fla. He also was an executive in t he Tennaco and Gulf Oil companies in Ecuador. He moved to San Rafael in 1973. In Marin Olive was director of General Business Services, a firm which sold services to independent businessmen.

He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons in Cuba, N.Y., the Terra Linda Rotary Club and the Retired Officer’s Association.

In 1944(?) he married Naomi Wagner who was born and reared in Cuba, N.Y. She was a homemaker all of her adult life,

Olive also is survived by a sister, Eunice Richards of Panama.

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Message:	: Independent Journal : Saturday, July 5, 1975 : Page 4 : JAMES OLIVE : NAOMI OLIVE : A memorial service for James and Naomi Olive will be held I conjunction with the 10 a.m. worship service tomorrow at the Church of the Nativity, 333 Ellen Drive, Marinwood. : The couple disappeared from their Hibiscus Way home in Terra Linda on June 21 and apparently were murdered and cremated. The pair’s adopted daughter, Marlene, 16, and her boyfriend, Charles David Riley, 20, are being held in connection with the slayings. : James Fenton Olive II was born in 1916 in Austin, Pa. When he was eight years old he moved with his parents to Panama where his father was publisher of the Panama American. : Olive received his bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State College, then returned to Panama to work for the Panama Canal Authority. : He entered the Army at the beginning of World War II and served in the China-Burma-India theater and in the Philippines. At the end of the war he was discharged as a major but continued to serve in the Army reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1971. : Olive had worked in the oil business in Panama and San Salvadore and for a time was a real estate broker in St. Petersburg, Fla. He also was an executive in t he Tennaco and Gulf Oil companies in Ecuador. He moved to San Rafael in 1973. In Marin Olive was director of General Business Services, a firm which sold services to independent businessmen. : He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons in Cuba, N.Y., the Terra Linda Rotary Club and the Retired Officer’s Association. : In 1944(?) he married Naomi Wagner who was born and reared in Cuba, N.Y. She was a homemaker all of her adult life, : Olive also is survived by a sister, Eunice Richards of Panama.