San Marcos mourns the loss of an amazing man, Oliver Sascha Schnellinger. Entering the world on August 5, 1969 and departing on May 8, 2019. Oliver was a man of many, many words and he used those words generously. In spite of this, his beginning is a little bit of a mystery to those who have come to love him during the last 15 years. He may have been in the witness protection program, undercover cop, or maybe he was a spy? Who knows? What’s for certain is that where he came from is in no way as relevant as where he ended up. He lived the rest of his life here in San Marcos, and that is exactly where he belonged.
Oliver was a profound force of nature. Larger than life. He would fill a room with just his voice but, he won the room with his laughter.He subscribed to his own set of rules. He made and defined these rules and he was staunch about his diligence to honoring said rules.
Oliver’s rules to living his life were simple and finite; eloquent and oddly poetic. There has never been another like Ollie, and there never will be again. Men like Oliver come around only once in a lifetime.
