A 98-year-old Oxnard woman became Catholic. Here’s why she finally did it

As she approached her 98th birthday, Virginia Eidson was more concerned about her next life than her present one. It weighed on her that she had never been baptized.

Born into a Cherokee, Choctaw, and Irish family in Oklahoma, her family was nominally Baptist but often too busy working to get to church. When she was about 13 and the Dust Bowl had destroyed their farmland, her stepfather packed their mother and nine children into the car and headed to California.

“The others were all baptized, but not me. Somehow it never worked out,” she said.

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