Alysia Sue Oliver

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A Memorial Service will be held at Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home Chapel, Walters, OK on Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

Alysia Sue Oliver was born December 8, 1981 in Richmond, TX and died November 27, 2024 at her home southwest of Walters, OK. She was 42 years old.

Alysia grew up in Northeast Kansas, attending schools there until high school when she attended Cookson Hills Christian Academy in Oklahoma. In 2004 she moved to Brownwood, TX where she worked as a CNA and later as a Home Health Aide. On May 2, 2020 she married Kenneth Wayne Powell, Jr., AKA “Pete.” They were married on Pete’s family ranch and lived there until moving to Oklahoma in 2021. 

In July of 2021, Alysia was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer. After a long year and a half fight, undergoing both radiation and chemotherapy treatments, Alysia was declared cancer free. 

While undergoing treatments, Alysia and Pete moved to their farm near Walters, OK, where they raise sheep and working dogs. Alysia was the primary ranch hand, while her husband Pete operated their bulldozer service.

Alysia loved her animals and spent many long nights tending to bottle babies.

She was an amazing horse person, and loved going on trail rides with friends. She loved to fish, she carried her gear in her pickup, and every fall spent a week deep sea fishing off the Texas coast. She was an avid photographer, and took many thousands of photos of nature, the sky, her animals, as many of you know.

Alysia had a great sense of humor and was quick with a witty comeback. She loved her friends, she loved her family, but most of all she loved Pete, even on the days she wanted to kill him. She will be greatly missed!

She was preceded in death by her stepfather, Jay D. Hollingshead and her paternal grandmother, Sharon K. Oliver.

Survivors include her husband, Pete Powell of the home; her mother, Susan Hollingshead; her dad, Carl G. Oliver Jr.; her sisters, Sarah Brady and Kristen Gilliland (Jack); her aunts, Catherine Hensley (Emery), Caryn Lloyd (Terry), Kayla Heptig (Bob), Linda McColloch (Pat); maternal grandparents, Otis and Linda Boardman; paternal grandfather, Carl G. Oliver Sr.; many other relatives and friends.