Harold Gene Oiler

A celebration of his life will be held on March 18, 2016 at 2:00pm at Grand View Funeral Home, located at 8501 Spencer Highway in Pasadena, Texas. Those wishing to sign the guestbook may do so at http://obits.dignitymemorial.com. Family friend, Victor White will officiate. Memorials to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, www.stjude.org, or to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, www.lls.org in lieu of flowers will be welcome.

Harold was born on September 29, 1944 in Montgomery, West Virginia to Arnold Richard and Eunice (Singleton) Oiler, the sixth of nine children. He left home in 1961 at 16 to join the army, served as an MP, and was stationed in Oklahoma where he met the love of his life, Donna Ann Locke. They married on May 2, 1964, two weeks after they met. He and Donna raised two boys together, but they also had an incredible impact in helping to raise siblings, nieces and nephews, and a plethora of neighborhood youth. Harold served as Vice President and President of Little League; he was a baseball coach, FFA and 4H mentor, and a strong supporter of the Pasadena rodeo, sharing his love of raising horses with the youth of Pasadena. Harold’s legacy for those who knew him is his strong values and unbreakable strength of will, his warmth, his enormous heart, and his great big laugh.

Harold is survived by his wife Donna of 51 years, and by two sons, Arnold Richard “Rick” Oiler and his wife Sandy of League City, Texas, and Shawn DeWayne Oiler and his wife Amy of Spring, Texas. He leaves six grandchildren, Connor Gene Oiler and his mother Mandy Gay, Nathaniel Thomas Oiler, Emma Kathleen Oiler, Chad Mueller, his wife Kelli and daughter Kylie, Chase Mueller, his wife Heather, and Cole Mueller and his daughter Lilly. Harold is also survived by his sisters Roberta Hackney and Patsy Gibson, by his brother Joe Oiler, and by his sisters-in-law Patricia McClelland, Yona Fitzgerald, and Bunny Harrison, and brother-in-law Clyde William Lowery, Jr. He leaves 25 nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his parents Arnold Richard Oiler and Eunice Oiler Bush, by his brothers Frank Oiler, Mac Oiler, J.C. Oiler, Robert Oiler, and Donald Oiler, and by his sister-in-law, Debbie Haynes.