Obit: Oldham, Lucille P. "Sis" #2 (1941 - 2006)

Contact: Crystal Wendt
Email:  crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Oldham, Kauffman, Gurney, Ewers, Hass, Hackel, Bielefeld, Roberts, Hoskins

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) January 4, 2006

Oldham, Lucille P. "Sis" #2 (10 June 1941 - 2 Jan. 2006)

Lucille P. "Sis" Oldham

Lucille "Sis" Oldham, 64, Neillsville, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2006, at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.

Services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, at Gesche Funeral Home. Interment will be in Neillsville City Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, and from 10 a.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home.

Lucille Patricia Oldham was born June 10, 1941, in the town of Colby, Clark County, the daughter of William and Elma (Kauffman) Gurney. She was united in marriage to Wayne Dale "Bill" Oldham in Milwaukee. They moved to Neillsville after their marriage, and she began raising their family. "Sis" also worked at local restaurants as a waitress and cook. Most recently she worked in housekeeping at the Memorial Medical Center in Neillsville, Wis.

She is survived by her husband, Wayne "Bill" Oldham; two sons, Ronald (Linda) Gurney of Neillsville and Kevin (Denet) Oldham of Greenwood; three daughters, Sandy (Dave) Ewers, Lime Ridge, Pam Hass (Kenneth Hackel), Colby, and Sue (Tom) Bielefeld, Hixton; 13 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; her mother, Elma Gurney, Neillsville; five brothers, Charles (Laura) Gurney, Florida, Louis (Dianne) Gurney, Gene (Sue) Gurney, Bill Gurney and Galen (Janet) Gurney, all of Neillsville; two sisters, Barb (Steve) Roberts, Neillsville, and Nancy (Art) Hoskins, Port Washington.