Paul G. Oium, age 80, of Cambridge passed away January 9, 2018 at home. A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, June 15th at Strike Life Tributes in Cambridge.
Paul is survived by three siblings, Dave Oium, Mark (Kathy) Oium, and Nancy (Richard) Ghelfi; and by many other relatives and close friends.
Sending my regards to Paul’s family. My remembrance of Paul goes mainly back to high school and college days. Paul was a true and caring friend. I always enjoyed conversations of substance with Paul. RIP
Paul has been a life-long friend. We spent long hours together during high school days and he often road with me back and forth to Concordia College. Paul and I were able to share life stories and this made our friendship most meaningful. With his brother David, we often sat around the Oium kitchen table and talked about life with their Mother Judy. After we left Madison twenty plus years ago our times to visit were limited but often I have thought about great memories.
We would like to be at the memorial service this summer. We will return from Florida in May and can be reached at: rljacksn@comcast.net. I send sympathies to David, Nancy, Mark and families. Blessed be the memory of Paul Oium.
Deepest condolences to Nancy, David and Mark on the passing of Paul. He was a fine and genuinely caring person.
I loved Richard Jackson’s reminiscence of Judy’s kitchen table and the lively discussions that took place there. I, too, had a lot of laughs (and a good deal of card playing) there, not to mention good food.
May you have peace and good memories.
I will always think of cousin Paul as a very good communicator and a person with a distinct sense of humor. I can’t recall any jokes but he had a way of expressing the irony of a point or embellishing something to the point of absurdity. He was a caring and gentle soul.
My condolences to all of Paul’s family. He was a classmate and though we didn’t see each other often after we graduated from college, our friendship endured over the years. He had a rare sense of humor that often left me in stitches. We enjoyed reminiscing about the good old days at MHS and the trouble we so narrowly avoided/escaped on several occasions. A memory that lingers still is being allowed to help pop corn in Gibby’s popcorn wagon.
Since I did not attend high school in Madison I did not know Paul as well in those years. I do remember him during our grade school years since he often came over to our cousins’, the Keilens, who lived in town. It was always fun being together and it was also great to talk to Paul at our high school class gatherings. May he rest in peace.