Oliver Stanley Thompson

Oliver Stanley Thompson was a beloved Christian husband, father, and grandfather. He passed from this life into the next on December 28, 2025, at 2:46am, following a sudden heart event. Oliver was born in Pensacola on March 17, 1939. He graduated from Pensacola High School on May 31, 1957, and then began basic training at Lackland Air Force Base on July 10. After his honorable discharge in 1960, he became an electrician. In 1964, while working at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL, he rented a room at 222 Holmes Avenue. This is where he met his future bride, who was a high school senior. They would marry at the house on Holmes Avenue in 1965, before relocating to the Pensacola area. Oliver and Pam moved to "the farm" in Pace, FL, where he built the house where they would raise three daughters. He was good to take time to visit Pam's family in Huntsville to show off his girls.
Oliver was a member of Wallace Baptist Church since the mid-70s, where he taught Sunday School, cooked tomato gravy and biscuits for the Men's Meetings, served as a deacon, and remained on-call to resolve any issues he could with his knowledge of how to fix just about anything. After raising three daughters, he was blessed with three granddaughters. He was finally blessed with the one and only boy in the family when his grandson arrived in 2010. Oliver and Pam moved from the house he built in Pace to retirement life at Azaela Trace in Pensacola in 2023.
Oliver loved cows, chickens, motorcycles, the mountains, and football. On Saturdays in the fall, Oliver enjoyed watching the University of Florida games. He enjoyed bickering with family members who favored FSU or Alabama, but Oliver was a Florida Gator through and through.
Oliver was preceded in death by his parents, Jeff and Violet Thompson; his sister, Ellen Smith; his niece, Denise Barranger; and his nephew, Michael Blackburn.
Oliver is survived by his wife of 60 years, Pam Thompson; daughters Tamra (Brian) Nelson, of Gulf Breeze, FL; Kelly (Benjamin) Vaughn, of Houston, TX; and Tuesday (James) Broxson, of Pace, FL; his beloved granddaughters Olivia Vaughn, Kennedy Vaughn, Rhianna Nelson, and his prized grandson Austin Broxson, the one boy in the family that he waited 71 years to get. He is also survived by his sister, Carolyn (Jim) Blackburn, of Pace, FL, and a host of nieces and nephews that he loved dearly.
Services for Oliver will be held on Friday, January 2, 2026, at Faith Chapel Funeral Home and Crematory - North, 1000 S Hwy 29, Cantonment, FL, 32533. Visitation for friends begins at 10:00AM. Funeral services will follow at 11:00AM.