Olin Robert Boyer

BOYER, Olin Robert, was born October 4, 1931 in Sweetwater, TX to Olin Albert Boyer and Jesse Lee (Johnson) Boyer. He passed away on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2018 at Oklahoma Methodist Manor in Tulsa, OK. Married Donna Fern Bush in Chillicothe, MO on May 16, 1951. Donna passed away on February 23, 2013. Survived by two sons, Olin Robert II ("Bob") and his wife, Deborah of Sapulpa, OK and William C. Boyer ("Bill") and his wife, Peggy of Houston TX, and their two sons, Christopher Ryan Boyer of Bakersfield, CA, and Army Specialist Christian Alexander Boyer, based at Fort Campbell, KY, and a grand-niece, Sarah Sallee of Katy, TX. Olin served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict, and was honorably discharged as a second Lieutenant. He obtained an Associates Degreee. He started work in the mailroom at Skelly Oil Company in Kansas City, KS, and was recruited to work as part of the very first support staff in the new computer department at Skelly's Tulsa, OK offices on Boulder. Olin retired from Texaco/Chevron as a senior IT Consultant. Dad was one of the smartest people I have ever met -- he was largely self-educated, and had a substantial appetite for information. He regularly checked out editions of the Scientific American magazine from the library up until he had regular access to the internet. He was an avid Bible student, and for about 50 years, has been an active member of Eastwood Baptist Church on 11th St in east Tulsa. The past few years, he would prepare an audible bible passage to play for his Sunday School class which was a dramatic reading of the Bible. His favorite verse was Philippians 4:13 --"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me". We witnessed that in his life especially during the last few years of my mother's life, as her health continued to decline, and her memory and personality changed due to the effects of Dementia and Alzheimer's, and the bipolar disorder that she struggled with for most of her adult life. Dad had a real knack for mechanical things, and had many tools, gadgets, and electronics. He even wore an Apple Watch! In the last few years, he was working on a scale model perpetual motion machine, and was pretty frustrated that he couldn't build it precisely to the measurements in an article he was using as a guide. He made a number of woodworking things primarily for my mother, and had a "Shopsmith" lathe and woodworking tools in the garage, along with a table saw. He even learned how to melt gold and silver and make jewelry, constructing his own oven to generate casting molds. He once modified an old bicycle by adding a lawnmower engine and drive wheel to make it a motorcycle that would travel at 30 miles an hour.... Dad was a short-wave radio operator, with the call sign "W5LNK". He had regular communications with operators in Australia, Europe, and other parts of the world. He tried a lot of things that seemed a bit odd to some of his friends and neighbors, I'm sure --a "recumbent" bicycle, a couple of Segway scooters, a "smart card", and a plug-in electric car... Funeral service will be 11:00 A.M., Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Moore's Southlawn Chapel, 9350 E. 51st, Tulsa, OK. Moore's Southlawn 918-663-2233

Olin Robert Boyer

October 4, 1931 - November 22, 2018