Virginia Lee Pullum, daughter of the late Ernest McCollom and Lois Black McCollom, was born on June 2, 1934, in Bloomfield, Missouri, and departed this life on May 12, 2022, at Winchester Nursing Center in Bernie, Missouri at the age of 87 years.

Mrs. Pullum was a former employee of Wal-Mart in Dexter, Missouri, working in the fabric department for 20 years. She was a member of the Beech Grove Church in rural Essex, Missouri and a resident of Bloomfield, Missouri. She enjoyed horses and horseback riding, flowers, gardening, and listening to gospel music. She loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and would do anything for them.

On February 9, 1954, in Bloomfield, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Charles N. Pullum. Mr. Pullum preceded her in death on January 2, 2000.

She is survived by two sons, Steve Pullum and wife Lynn of Dexter, Missouri, and Danny Pullum of Sikeston, Missouri; by her daughter, Debbie Ward and husband Dennis of Bloomfield, Missouri; by five sisters, Helen Launius of Moorpark, California, Audrey Duncan of Dexter, Missouri, Ruth Scandridge of Kentucky, Kathryn Hyslop of Dexter, Missouri, and Elaine Launius of Bloomfield, Missouri; by three grandchildren, Tyler Pullum, Kara Walker, and Travis Pullum; by three great-grandchildren, Tristin Pullum, Tara Pullum, and Emma Walker; and by many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Other than by her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Jimmy McCollom.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, May 15, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Sunday, May 15, 2022, at 2:30 p.m.

Interment will follow in the Walker Cemetery in rural Bloomfield, Missouri.

Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements.