Vilo Adams Skidmore passed away at her Grantsville residence on Friday afternoon, March 21, 2014.
She was born December 12, 1929 in Parowan, Utah to Ancel J. and Gertrude Decker Adams.
She was raised with nine siblings and attended schools in Parowan. She then went to Cedar City, Utah and attended the Branch Agricultural College (SUU). It was there that she met A. LeRoy Skidmore, Jr. They became good friends and soon after fell in love. LeRoy was called to serve an LDS mission, but not before he had asked Vilo to marry him. Soon after, Vilo also left for her own mission to Indiana.
She returned home before he did and when he finally arrived, they wasted no time and were married in the St. George LDS Temple three weeks later on November 22, 1952. LeRoy was almost immediately called to serve his country in the United States Army. The couple lived in Fort Lewis, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; and after the service in Logan, Utah for schooling.
LeRoy accepted a job teaching at Tooele High School and they moved to Tooele. Here, they settled and raised their family. Vilo was an angel mother and spent her time teaching and nurturing their three children, Elizabeth, David and James. Later, she worked at the school lunch and at the Tooele Valley Nursing Home.
She always had a strong testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ and was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in many positions, including Primary teacher and Relief Society president. She and LeRoy served a mission at the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. After her husband's death, she moved to Hyde Park, Utah and then to Diamond Jane's in Grantsville.
Vilo was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy; her parents; a sister. Maureen (John) Foster; brothers, Bernarr Adams, Bryce Adams, and Lorraine (Carmen) Adams; and brothers-in-law, Willard Jones, Joe Lawrence, Seymour Nielsen, and Sweeney Windchief. She is survived by her children, Elizabeth (Ron) Brown, David (Becky) Skidmore, and James (Jane) Skidmore, as well as twelve grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Hardy (Dorothy) Adams, Trudy Jones, Spencer (Rita) Adams, Lloyd (Christine) Adams, and Sharon (Gary) Cupp, and sisters-in-law, Madelyn Adams, Lovena Adams, Dorothy Lawrence, Aldean Nielsen, Muriel (Jim) Martin, and Peggy (Garth) Mabey, along with many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2014
in the Tooele Stake Center, 245 South 200 East. A viewing will be held prior to the services at the church from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on March 25, 2014.
She was born December 12, 1929 in Parowan, Utah to Ancel J. and Gertrude Decker Adams.
She was raised with nine siblings and attended schools in Parowan. She then went to Cedar City, Utah and attended the Branch Agricultural College (SUU). It was there that she met A. LeRoy Skidmore, Jr. They became good friends and soon after fell in love. LeRoy was called to serve an LDS mission, but not before he had asked Vilo to marry him. Soon after, Vilo also left for her own mission to Indiana.
She returned home before he did and when he finally arrived, they wasted no time and were married in the St. George LDS Temple three weeks later on November 22, 1952. LeRoy was almost immediately called to serve his country in the United States Army. The couple lived in Fort Lewis, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; and after the service in Logan, Utah for schooling.
LeRoy accepted a job teaching at Tooele High School and they moved to Tooele. Here, they settled and raised their family. Vilo was an angel mother and spent her time teaching and nurturing their three children, Elizabeth, David and James. Later, she worked at the school lunch and at the Tooele Valley Nursing Home.
She always had a strong testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ and was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in many positions, including Primary teacher and Relief Society president. She and LeRoy served a mission at the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. After her husband's death, she moved to Hyde Park, Utah and then to Diamond Jane's in Grantsville.
Vilo was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy; her parents; a sister. Maureen (John) Foster; brothers, Bernarr Adams, Bryce Adams, and Lorraine (Carmen) Adams; and brothers-in-law, Willard Jones, Joe Lawrence, Seymour Nielsen, and Sweeney Windchief. She is survived by her children, Elizabeth (Ron) Brown, David (Becky) Skidmore, and James (Jane) Skidmore, as well as twelve grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Hardy (Dorothy) Adams, Trudy Jones, Spencer (Rita) Adams, Lloyd (Christine) Adams, and Sharon (Gary) Cupp, and sisters-in-law, Madelyn Adams, Lovena Adams, Dorothy Lawrence, Aldean Nielsen, Muriel (Jim) Martin, and Peggy (Garth) Mabey, along with many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2014
in the Tooele Stake Center, 245 South 200 East. A viewing will be held prior to the services at the church from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on March 25, 2014.
Vilo Adams Skidmore passed away at her Grantsville residence on Friday afternoon, March 21, 2014.
She was born December 12, 1929 in Parowan, Utah to Ancel J. and Gertrude Decker Adams.
She was raised with nine siblings and attended schools in Parowan. She then went to Cedar City, Utah and attended the Branch Agricultural College (SUU). It was there that she met A. LeRoy Skidmore, Jr. They became good friends and soon after fell in love. LeRoy was called to serve an LDS mission, but not before he had asked Vilo to marry him. Soon after, Vilo also left for her own mission to Indiana.
She returned home before he did and when he finally arrived, they wasted no time and were married in the St. George LDS Temple three weeks later on November 22, 1952. LeRoy was almost immediately called to serve his country in the United States Army. The couple lived in Fort Lewis, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; and after the service in Logan, Utah for schooling.
LeRoy accepted a job teaching at Tooele High School and they moved to Tooele. Here, they settled and raised their family. Vilo was an angel mother and spent her time teaching and nurturing their three children, Elizabeth, David and James. Later, she worked at the school lunch and at the Tooele Valley Nursing Home.
She always had a strong testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ and was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in many positions, including Primary teacher and Relief Society president. She and LeRoy served a mission at the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. After her husband's death, she moved to Hyde Park, Utah and then to Diamond Jane's in Grantsville.
Vilo was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy; her parents; a sister. Maureen (John) Foster; brothers, Bernarr Adams, Bryce Adams, and Lorraine (Carmen) Adams; and brothers-in-law, Willard Jones, Joe Lawrence, Seymour Nielsen, and Sweeney Windchief. She is survived by her children, Elizabeth (Ron) Brown, David (Becky) Skidmore, and James (Jane) Skidmore, as well as twelve grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Hardy (Dorothy) Adams, Trudy Jones, Spencer (Rita) Adams, Lloyd (Christine) Adams, and Sharon (Gary) Cupp, and sisters-in-law, Madelyn Adams, Lovena Adams, Dorothy Lawrence, Aldean Nielsen, Muriel (Jim) Martin, and Peggy (Garth) Mabey, along with many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2014
in the Tooele Stake Center, 245 South 200 East. A viewing will be held prior to the services at the church from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on March 25, 2014.
She was born December 12, 1929 in Parowan, Utah to Ancel J. and Gertrude Decker Adams.
She was raised with nine siblings and attended schools in Parowan. She then went to Cedar City, Utah and attended the Branch Agricultural College (SUU). It was there that she met A. LeRoy Skidmore, Jr. They became good friends and soon after fell in love. LeRoy was called to serve an LDS mission, but not before he had asked Vilo to marry him. Soon after, Vilo also left for her own mission to Indiana.
She returned home before he did and when he finally arrived, they wasted no time and were married in the St. George LDS Temple three weeks later on November 22, 1952. LeRoy was almost immediately called to serve his country in the United States Army. The couple lived in Fort Lewis, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; and after the service in Logan, Utah for schooling.
LeRoy accepted a job teaching at Tooele High School and they moved to Tooele. Here, they settled and raised their family. Vilo was an angel mother and spent her time teaching and nurturing their three children, Elizabeth, David and James. Later, she worked at the school lunch and at the Tooele Valley Nursing Home.
She always had a strong testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ and was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in many positions, including Primary teacher and Relief Society president. She and LeRoy served a mission at the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. After her husband's death, she moved to Hyde Park, Utah and then to Diamond Jane's in Grantsville.
Vilo was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy; her parents; a sister. Maureen (John) Foster; brothers, Bernarr Adams, Bryce Adams, and Lorraine (Carmen) Adams; and brothers-in-law, Willard Jones, Joe Lawrence, Seymour Nielsen, and Sweeney Windchief. She is survived by her children, Elizabeth (Ron) Brown, David (Becky) Skidmore, and James (Jane) Skidmore, as well as twelve grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Hardy (Dorothy) Adams, Trudy Jones, Spencer (Rita) Adams, Lloyd (Christine) Adams, and Sharon (Gary) Cupp, and sisters-in-law, Madelyn Adams, Lovena Adams, Dorothy Lawrence, Aldean Nielsen, Muriel (Jim) Martin, and Peggy (Garth) Mabey, along with many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2014
in the Tooele Stake Center, 245 South 200 East. A viewing will be held prior to the services at the church from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on March 25, 2014.
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