Service:  ARMY
Component:  NATIONAL GUARD
Name:  OLIVIER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH
Rank:  SSG
Pay Grade:  E05
Date of Death:  2005/02/23
Age:  26
Gender:  MALE
Home of Record City:  JACKSON
Home of Record State:  MS
Home of Record Country:  US
Unit:  B COMPANY, 3D BATTALION, 156TH INFANTRY, 256TH INFANTRY BRIGADE, V CORPS, PINEVILLE, LA
Incident Geographic Code:  IZ
Casualty Geographic Code:  IZ
Casualty Country:  IRAQ
City of Loss:  BAGHDAD

Casualty Release:
DoD Identifies Army Casualty No. 202-05

Burial Location:
Calvary Cemetery
355 Teurlings Dr
Lafayette, LA 70501

Obituary:

NICHOLAS JOSEPH OLIVIER Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 3, 2005 at an 11:00 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial in St. Peter Roman Catholic Church in Carencro for Nicholas Joseph Olivier, age 26, who passed away Wednesday, February 23, 2005 in Iraq. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery in Lafayette. The Rev. William Gearheard, pastor of Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, will officiate at the services. Full military honors will be provided by members of the LA National Guard Honor Guard. Musical selections will be provided by Phyllis Simar. The songs will be On Eagle’s Wings, Gifts Of Finest Wheat, One Bread, One Body, and Battle Hymn of the Republic. Mr. Olivier was a native of Carencro and a resident of Shreveport. He attended grade school in Carencro and then moved to Norco where he graduated from Destrehan High School in 1997. He then attended LA Tech University in Ruston and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 2002. After graduating he was employed as a financial advisor for Wells Fargo. Mr. Olivier was a member of the V.F.W. Post #9822 in Judice. In January 1999 he joined Company B, 3/156 Infantry Battalion of the LA National Guard and transferred to Charlie Company 3rd Battalion of the LA National Guard’s 256th Brigade Combat Team from which he was deployed to Iraq. Survivors include his wife, the former Angelle Fairbanks of Shreveport; his parents, William “Bill” Olivier and the former Linda Pomier of Picayune, Mississippi; one brother, Steven Olivier of St. Rosa, LA; and his maternal grandmother, Virginia Alleman Pomier of Scott. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather, John W. Pomier and his paternal grandparents, Kearney Olivier and the former Dorothy Romero. Melancon Funeral Home of Carencro, 4615 North University Avenue, (337) 896-6366, is in charge of arrangements.