Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial
William Robert Olive
January 1, 1922 – 17 January 17, 2002

Subject(s): Agriculture
Tenure: 47-48 to 50-51
Mr. Olive was born in Lafayette County, Arkansas, to Joseph Searcy Olive and Augusta (Harris) Olive,
and he received his higher education at the University of Arkansas. He married Martha Jean Lemaster
at Fayetteville on August 25, 1946, and they moved to Hughes, where he began teaching agriculture
for HHS in the fall of 1947, a position he held for four years. They eventually moved to Dunedin,
Pinellas County, Florida, where Mrs. Olive died April 2, 1992. Mr. Olive also died in Dunedin on April 2,
2002.