Oliver W. Shriver was born 26 December 1903, Clearwater, Kansas; married
     27 June, 1936, Garden City, Kansas, to Hazel Adaline Steenis, born 21
     September 1907, Lyon County, Kansas; daughter of John J. and Edith (Bower)
     Steenis of Deerfield, Kansas. No children.
       Oliver started farming working with his father on the Johnson Place near
     Lake City, Kansas. In the late 1920s, he started farming for himself near
     Deerfield and Moscow, Kansas, and ws one of the early Western Kansas
     wheat growers. He later acquired land for himself in Kearney County and he
     and his wife Hazel developed one of the fine irrigated farms in Kearney
     County, first raising wheat and milo, and later corn and irrigated grass
     for livestock.
       Hazel was first a bookkeeper for the Metz Lumber Company in Wichita, and
     served as an excellent housewife, gardener, community worker, in the
     Deerfield area. Their love for children was expressed in their work with
     4-H children in their community.
       They retired from farming after 50 years and now reside at Parker, Arizona.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 417