Geoff Oldham (Spring ‘88)
May 3, 1969 – August 4, 2020
Jenny (wife) and children Nicole and Taylor
Read Geoff’s obituary.
A Tribute to Geoff Oldham – from Jenny Oldham
Geoff Oldham was an amazing father and friend, brother and son. He grew up in his early life in Connecticut and then later on Delaware, where he made some of the most solid friendships for life with crews from Dover high school and the University of Delaware. He played soccer and loved to surf.
He literally worked every kind of job on the planet, fast food, landscaping, factory, retail…you name it, he did it! After college graduation, he moved to DC and and started his professional career in technology. From DC he went to Atlanta, where he met me, his wife Jenny, in the year 2000 at a software company. We fell in love playing foosball, golfing, riding bikes, just being active and having fun with friends.
We married in 2003 and had two daughters Nicole (now 17) and Taylor (now 15). He was so good to his girls!!! He adored them both, and was an incredible co-parent with me. He spent real quality time with them, reading books, playing on the floor with them, having tea parties, and could even braid their hair. He told them the BEST bedtime stores that he would make up as he went and they ALWAYS amazed me, I so wish I wrote them down. He taught them to fish, surf, throw a football, ride a bike and golf. When the girls did something that touched his heart he would tear up, he was a softie bigtime on the inside. His big question at dinner everyday was “name one thing you learned, one thing you loved, and one thing you laughed at today”. I loved this conversation starter and we will still do it to this day and think of him. His daughters are avid soccer players and excellent students, and have plans to attend college likely somewhere in the southeast around where we live in Peachtree City GA. They both play soccer for travel teams and their high school, as well as referee.
Geoff was literally the funniest man I have ever known and his friends would say the same. He had a very dry sense of humor and quick wit would say things that were so smart and clever, little observations and responses that he could capture in a few hilarious words. And he had a great voice, an amazing smile and a laugh that all just added to the charm.
He was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer at age 49 and survived almost two years of the most grueling mental and physical battles, treatments and surgeries. We thought he had heartburn or a stomach ulcer.
His diagnosis, suffering and death are to this day incomprehensible, surreal, ineffable. We miss him dearly Every. Single. Day.
From his brothers – A tribute video for Geoff Oldham: