Linda Diane (Showalter) Oliver

With love and sadness, we share that Linda Diane (Showalter) Oliver (63) passed peacefully on the morning of Good Friday; April 3, 2026; at Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg. Linda’s lifetime was a testament of service to others. As a young waitress at Traveler’s Restaurant in downtown Parkersburg, Linda quietly took tips from her apron pocket to cover the bills of customers who could not pay. Later, as a supervising Registered Nurse at Camden Clark Hospital, she tended to the human needs of the patients in her care, and she insisted that her staff do the same. If she found an idle staff member, she would tell them to go make a cup of tea for a patient or hold the hand of someone in pain or fear. Through such simple acts of grace and sympathy, Linda improved the lives of those around her.

From the time she was a girl, Linda demonstrated her tremendous love of family through kind, practical deeds. She would rise early to pack lunches for her family, bake unexpected pies, give surprise gifts, and tidy up rooms. In adulthood, she nurtured, counseled, and supported friends and family and would set aside her own plans to help others at a moment’s notice. A devoted mother, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend, Linda would do anything possible to protect her loved ones both physically and spiritually. As a devout Catholic, Linda modeled the power of a life committed in equal parts to faith and good works.

Linda is survived by her loving husband of 43 years, Michael Oliver; her son Andrew, and his fiancée, Andrea Horner; her parents, Jerry and Bobbie Showalter; her siblings Lyman, Steven, Catherine (Wharton), Susan (Showalter-Bucher), Patrick, John, and William; and countless nieces and nephews, who adored her.

Services will be held on Friday, April 10, at 11 a.m. at St. Margaret Mary Church in Parkersburg. Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., then 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Thursday, April 9, at the Leavitt Funeral Home in Parkersburg.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.leavittfuneralhome.com.