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Funeral services for Dora E.
Skelton, 88, of Roswell, who died Monday, Aug, 1, at an
Ontario nursing home of pneumonia and congestive heart
failure, will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Sterry
Memorial Presbyterian Church, Roswell, by the Rev. William C.
Wartes of Sterry Memorial Presbyterian Church, Roswell and the
Rev. Donald Shover of the Assembly of God Church, Fruitland.
Interment will follow at the Roswell Cemetery, Roswell, under
the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel, Parma.
She was born June 2, 1895, at Eagle Rock, Mo., the daughter of
Elbert Allen and Sarah Faulkner Ball, where she was reared and
educated. She married Charles E. Skelton Feb. 21, 1915.
Two years later in 1917, they moved to Roswell, where they
farmed until his death on Dec. 5, 1973. A year later she
moved to the Presbyterian Nursing Home in Ontario, Ore., where
she resided until her death.
She was a
past president of the WCTU and was a founding member of the
Women's Bible Study at the Roswell Presbyterian Church, where
she was a member.
She is survived by one
daughter, Mildred Skelton Smyser of Roswell; one son, Virgil
Verdell Skelton of Roswell; three granddaughters, Melodie
Smyser Blower of Stockton, Calif., Crystal Skelton Giles of
Spokane, Wash., and Sherril Skelton, a student at Whitworth
College; three grandsons, Skip Smyser of Roswell, Michael and
Randall Skelton, both of Spokane, Wash.; six
great-grandchildren, Bobby, Michael and Marcy Blower of
Stockton, Calif., and Stephanie, Jason and Bethanie Giles of
Spokane, Wash. She was preceded in death by her husband,
three brothers, and one sister.
The
family suggests that memorials may be made to the Sterry
Memorial Presbyterian Church, Roswell.
Friends may call at the chapel in Parma today between 6 and 8
p.m.
Active pallbearers will be her
three grandsons and three great-grandsons. Honorary
pallbearers will be Lucille Allen, Leona Tuning, Frances
French, Wyoma Harold, Maurine Andrew, and Helen Lowell. |
