Virginia Oldham

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, July 10, 2007

CAMPBELLSVILLE – Virginia Oldham, 80, of Campbellsville died at 1:30 a.m. EDT July 7, 2007, in Campbellsville.

The Grayson County native was born on Nov. 7, 1926. She professed faith in Christ and was a member of Campbellsville Baptist Church, where she taught the J.O.Y. Sunday school class. She was a former school teacher, church secretary and clerk at Mary Anne’s Hallmark, as well as a pastor’s and professor’s wife. She served with her husband at Lexington Baptist Church in Lexington, S.C., and Springfield Baptist Church in Springfield. She was also dorm mother for more than 500 students at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She married the Rev. Robert Oldham, who survives, on April 16, 1947. She was a daughter of the late Tice Pruitt and Ella Mae Ford Pruitt. She was preceded in death by a brother and sister-in-law, Tice and Sarah Pruitt.

Funeral was today at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home, with burial in Brookside Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Gideons.

Other survivors include a son, John S. Oldham and his wife, Marilyn, of Lansing, Mich.; a daughter, Mary Milby and her husband, Roy, of Memphis, Tenn.; four grandchildren, Kristy Sweet and her husband, Lincoln, of Lansing, Stacey Oldham of Holland, Mich., and Matthew Milby and Joshua Milby, both of Memphis; a brother, Murrell Pruitt and his wife, Carol, of Caneyville; four nephews, Mike Pruitt of Columbia, Mo., Royce Pruitt of Sevierville, Tenn., Vernon Pruitt of Dothan, Ala., and Dean Pruitt of Caneyville; and several other relatives and friends.