Born and raised in Kansas City in 1902. During the Roaring Twenties his father was a bootlegger and Oliver made deliveries. One of the delivery locations was at the back door to the newspaper building; he was always fascinated by the printing press machines that rolled at a non-stop pace.

In 1931 he became a typesetters apprentice at the newspaper in Chicago. He spent the remainder of his working career setting type all through the night for the next morning's edition. He read backwards and rarely spoke. Having set type for millions of words he was a fountain of knowledge in thousands of subjects.

He purchased an old line-a-type machine from a near by town and proceeded to dismantle it and bury the parts in the land he had bought. He displayed a sign along the road which offered he was available to TALK. Folks driving by could always count on a good face to face conversation with Oliver, and a hot cup of coffee and fresh sandwiches.

Oliver soon found his way into the local public school providing speech therapy to young students.

Valerie Faber whose maiden name was Haley, was born in Mississippi but the family move to Arizona because of her and her brother's asthma. Her dad opened a shoe store in 1946 in Flagstaff, after returning from World War II. Valerie graduated from college at the University of Phoenix in 1957. She worked for her father and became part owner of Haley's Shoes. Her brother was declared missing in action during the Korean Conflict in 1953.

In 1961 she was on a ski trip to Aspen Colorado and met Russ Faber. Russ was a career Army officer, with the 101st Airborne Division, and on leave from Fort Benning Georgia. They were married in Las Vegas the following year. They had a child in 1972 and named him Wayne. Russ's problems of coping with civilian life were increasing and Valerie and he divorced in 1976. Valerie remarried and is still part owner in her son's shoe store, Wayne's Shoes.

Russ Faber was in the Army, the 101st. Airborne Division. He wears the Eagle insignia on his motorcycle helmet. He met Valerie while he was on leave in Aspen, Colorado skiing. Later they were married and lived at the Army post at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Russ was a career Army officer, but when Valerie's father died in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1965 he put in his papers to retired. They returned to take over her father's shoe store. Russ currently suffers from Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) stemming from his tours of duty in Korea and Vietnam.

Valerie and he divorced in 1976. She has custody of their one son named Wayne. They both remarried, she to the pharmacist across the street from her shoe store (a boyhood friend); and Russ married a nurse he met while in a veterans hospital in 1979.