Oliver Stephen McAfee

Oliver Stephen McAfee TAMPA - Oliver Stephen McAfee, 84, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, at Clairbridge of Alterra Alzheimer Community in Tampa. The service will be at 1:15 p.m. EST Monday at Barrancas National Cemetery at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola. Blount & Curry Funeral Home Carrollwood Chapel (813-968-2231) is handling arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made to Lifepath Hospice, 3010 Azeele St., Tampa, FL 33609. He was born July 27, 1919, in Santa Barbara, Calif., to Catherine Margaret Tierney and Oliver Elger McAfee. He was an Air Force Veteran of World War II. He enlisted in the Air Force when he was 21, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel (1941-1961), and was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal. He married Carolyn Daffin Smith on Oct. 5, 1942, at St. Martha's Church in Sarasota. He was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Florida State University for business administration. They were stationed all over the U.S. due to the orders of the Air Force. On May 22, 1951, Carolyn gave birth to their baby boy, Stephen Smith McAfee, in Lubbock, Texas. Years passed and Oliver and Carolyn resided in Miami. He later worked for AmeriFirst Financial in Miami and retired in 1982. He was a bank examiner. On the eve of his retirement from AmeriFirst his wife died suddenly, following a brief illness, on Dec. 30, 1982. She was buried in Barrancas National Cemetery. Oliver's son, Stephen, married Anne Marshall Atkinson on July 19, 1975. They moved to Tampa and gave birth to their baby girl, Elizabeth Anne McAfee. Stephen later died battling bile duct cancer in 1993.