Name: Miller
E-mail address: placoderm6 [at] aol [dot] com
Location: Upper West Side of US

Comment (Mon Apr 11, 2011):
I still have his lunch pail from his coalmining days with a .22 bullet hole in it. That was done to
discourage his organising activities. Didn't phase him.
O.V. was one of a kind. I had the pleasure of knowing him in NYC and played in his band, which at
that time was known as 'Cold Shot'. You can imagine how political C&W went over at
venues like 8BC and the expressions of confusion under all those mohawks.
We shared many vodka tepids. Don't know what he thought of me, but I hold him in high regard.
Sorry for the loss to all his family.

Name: george Davis
E-mail address: geofiasco [at] aol [dot] com
Location:

Comment (Sat Jan 15, 2011):
I am his grandson from the picture, I am sad =(

Name: Leon Stafford II
E-mail address: lstafford2 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Location: Washington, DC & Georgia

Comment (Sun Mar 22, 2009):
I've looked for Ollie ever since we were in the Air force together in Havre Radar Station,
Havre, MT. We were both around 19-20 years old and full of juice - no one fuller that Ollie. We used
to play word games - you know, see who could use the biggest word in a sentence. With Ollie's
Latin from high school, he was brutal in picking words apart and figuring out what they meant.

I called his Father once, trying to find Ollie. He gave me a spiel and made like he disowned him. I
guess I sort of gave up... til today. I googled him just for fun and was shocked to hear that he
died.

G'bye Ollie. Hope it's not vituperative where you are.

Name: Pamela Matsuda-Dunn
E-mail address: pmdart [at] gmail [dot] com
Location: New York, NY

Comment (Tue Jan 13, 2009):
What a shock to google someone and find him gone. I first met Oliver when he ran a workshop for CUE
Foundation on archival materials for artists. I subsequently called him for advice on a large
drawing series I was doing. He and Janelle were so helpful and giving with their information ... and
yet they hardly knew me. I could sense what a special person he was in those brief dealings I had
with him.

Name: Shandsmen
E-mail address: khanshes [at] vzw [dot] blackberry [dot] net
Location: Right where you left me

Comment (Sat Nov 29, 2008):
wrote something to/for you shortly after your departure that I never saved or displayed. I read it
numerous times however, never submitted it to memory. It was called the ”surrogate sun”. It was
saved in my phone, which I recently lost. To try to duplicate the sentiment would be futile. As
eloquent and poignant as it was written, it was somewhat of a timed piece and to attempt to
replicate any part of it would take away from its meaning.
Regardless, I was on my lunch break and saw a gentleman that would be your age today that from a
distance resembled you. Oddly enough, he looked at me as if I had a familiar face. Guess you could
say we had a ”moment in passing ”. Just droppin' by, as I do from time to time to read and
remember. This time I had to add on. Ask Russell where he got that shirt from. Shine on surrogate
sun, shine on. 16-5-1-3-5