Virginia Lee Sledge was 93 years old when she passed away peacefully at her home in Kingwood, Texas on November 18, 2023. She was surrounded by her family who loved and cherished her dearly. She was a woman of great faith and was the spiritual prayer warrior in the family.

Virginia, who went by Billie Sledge, was born in 1930 in Patricia, Texas in Dawson County to Robert Lee and Mantie McReynolds. She had one older sister Barbara Palmer, two younger brothers Jack McReynolds and Charlie McReynolds, and two younger twin sisters Juanell Robinson and Juanda Allen. Charlie McReynolds is the only surviving sibling.

She was raised in Andrews, Texas on the 5 Wells Ranch and moved to Seminole, Texas in 1946 where her father Robert served as Sherriff of Gaines County until his death in a vehicle accident in 1953. During her senior year at Seminole High School, she was voted class beauty, she was a cheerleader, she was in the curtain drama club, the future homemakers of America club, and the glee club. She was the Senior class secretary and crowned the 1948 Football Queen.

Virginia's first job was working at Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole Texas as an abstract typist. She held that job until she married the love of her life Charlie Sledge after they met at one of his league basketball games in the fall of 1950. Two years later they got married on November 1, 1952. Two weeks after their honeymoon, they moved to Tioga, North Dakota where she began a lifetime of being a wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. There were a few other typing jobs in Longview and Corpus Christi, Texas but it was home where she excelled at being an expert domestic engineer. It was home where her daily commitment and devotion to reading God's Word and praying over her family gave her the most joy and satisfaction. Charlie and Billie enjoyed 70 incredible years of marriage together.

She is survived by her daughter Sandy Whalen and her husband Tim, her son Chuck Sledge, and his wife Cyndie, her five grandchildren, Nicole Parker, Angela Peters, Jacob Lahti, Wesley Sledge and Tori Sledge, her great-grandchildren, Isaiah Denissen, Emily Peters, Darcy Trosclair, and Shelby Snyder plus many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She is preceded in death by her husband Charles Wyndham Sledge, parents Robert Lee and Mantie Audina McReynolds, older sister Barbara Grace Palmer, younger brother Jack Ray McReynolds, and her twin sisters, Juanda Janell Allen and Juanell Janiece Allen.

A Visitation will be on Tuesday November 21, 2023, from 5 - 7 pm at the original Darst Funeral Home Chapel, 796 Russell Palmer Road, Kingwood, Texas 77339. She will be transported to Griffin-Hillcrest Funeral Home, 1610 C SE, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402, where her Celebration of Life will be held in the chapel on Saturday 25, 2023, 10:30 am. Her burial will follow immediately after the service at the gravesite. Service Information A Visitation will be on Tuesday November 21, 2023, from 5 - 7 pm at the original Darst Funeral Home Chapel, 796 Russell Palmer Road, Kingwood, Texas 77339. She will be transported to Griffin-Hillcrest Funeral Home, 1610 C SE, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402, where her Celebration of Life will be held in the chapel on Saturday 25, 2023, 10:30 am. Her burial will follow immediately after the service at the gravesite. Visitation Tuesday 21 Nov 5:00 pm ~ 7:00 pm Darst Funeral Home (Old Chapel) 796 Russell Palmer Rd, Kingwood, Tx 77339 Interment Saturday 25 Nov Griffin- Hillcrest Memorial Park 1610 C SE, Ardmore, Ok 73402