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Mary Lucinda “Lucy” <I>Minner</I> Skaggs

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Mary Lucinda “Lucy” Minner Skaggs

Birth
Soldier, Jackson County, Kansas, USA
Death
31 Aug 1968 (aged 83)
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL - SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1, 1968

LUCY SKAGGS DIES AT 83 IN HOSPITAL:

Mrs. Lucy Mary Skaggs, 83, 125 Western, died Saturday in a Topeka hospital.

She was born May 27, 1885, at Soldier and had lived in Topeka since 1917. She was a graduate of Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia.

She taught at Polk Elementry School in Topeka, Berryton Grade School, Silver Lake High School and the Topeka Night School before she retired.

Her husband, Dr. E.P. Skaggs, died in 1952.

Survivors include a son, John F. Skaggs, at home; a stepson, Roy Thobourne, Cincinnati, Ohio; three brothers, Charlie Minner, Soldier; Claude Minner, Vista, Calif., and Clyde Minner, Festus, Missouri; two sisters Mrs. Bertha Forster, Soldier, and Mrs. Ratia Klusmire, Holton; and a half-sister, Mrs. Millicent Heath, 1200 Harrison, Topeka.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.
TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL - SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1, 1968

LUCY SKAGGS DIES AT 83 IN HOSPITAL:

Mrs. Lucy Mary Skaggs, 83, 125 Western, died Saturday in a Topeka hospital.

She was born May 27, 1885, at Soldier and had lived in Topeka since 1917. She was a graduate of Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia.

She taught at Polk Elementry School in Topeka, Berryton Grade School, Silver Lake High School and the Topeka Night School before she retired.

Her husband, Dr. E.P. Skaggs, died in 1952.

Survivors include a son, John F. Skaggs, at home; a stepson, Roy Thobourne, Cincinnati, Ohio; three brothers, Charlie Minner, Soldier; Claude Minner, Vista, Calif., and Clyde Minner, Festus, Missouri; two sisters Mrs. Bertha Forster, Soldier, and Mrs. Ratia Klusmire, Holton; and a half-sister, Mrs. Millicent Heath, 1200 Harrison, Topeka.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.


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  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34872671/mary_lucinda-skaggs: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Lucinda “Lucy” Minner Skaggs (27 May 1885–31 Aug 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID 34872671, citing Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by KU (contributor 47104946).