Obit – Mr. Sammy (Sam) Oldham
Mr. Sammy (Sam) Oldham age 84 of Lebanon, died at the Cedar Creek Post Acute Center in Mount Juliet on August 13, 2025.
Memorial services were conducted on Friday afternoon August 15th at 2 p.m. from the Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Bro. Kevin Medlin officiated and burial was in the Bethlehem Cemetery in the Tuckers Cross Roads Community.
He was born Sammy Wayne Oldham in the Dixon Springs Community on May 6, 1942 and was one of one of six children, five sons and a daughter of the late William Sam “Bill” Oldham who died April 8, 2000 at the age of 78 and Mary Carnelle “Gaga” Gross Oldham who died July 29, 2008 at the age of 87.
Three brothers, Tony “T. O.” Oldham preceded Sam in death, as did two brothers who died as infants, James William and Ronnie Joe Oldham.
A sister-in-law, Roberta Jane Oldham also preceded him in death on September 17, 2018 at the age of 77.
He was a 1959 graduate of Smith County High School where he majored in Agriculture and served as the class secretary his senior year, and was a member of the science and Spanish clubs.
The statement made of him in the ’59 Owl annual was; “A noise like that of a hidden brook.”
He attended medical laboratory school in Nashville following graduation from S.C.H.S. and worked in the lab at the former Smith County Hospital for five years and in 1966 was drafted into the United States Army, and following the military in August of 1968 he enrolled at Western Kentucky University School of Anesthesia where he graduated in 1972.
He then relocated to Lebanon where he practiced his chosen profession as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist for forty-two years in his chosen profession and became a partner in Mid-Cumberland Anesthesia.
From 1985 through 1988 he served as President of the Tennessee Association of Nurse Anesthetist.
Surviving is his wife of fifty-one years, Sandra Ragland Oldham, five children, Tammy Donnell Allison and husband Mike, Millard “M. F.” Donnell and wife Rosemary, Joseph Scott Oldham, David Eric Oldham and Beth Oldham Alsup and husband Zachary; eleven grandchildren four great-grandchildren; brother Billy Gross Oldham and a sister, Benda Oldham Mahaffey.
The Oldham family has requested memorials to the Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church Building Fund, 522 Castle Heights Avenue, Lebanon, TN 37087.
LIGON & BOBO of LEBANON
