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James Henry Skelton Jr.

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James Henry Skelton Jr.

Birth
Cabery, Ford County, Illinois, USA
Death
19 May 1966 (aged 89)
Paxton, Ford County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Cabery, Ford County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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JAMES SKELTON, 89, CABERY MAN, DIES AT PAXTON
Services held Saturday at Cullom, Burial at Cabery.
James Skelton, 89, a retired carpenter, died in the Ford County Nursing Home, Paxton, at 10:20 am Thursday, May 19. He had been a patient there two months.
Visitation was at the Stewart Funeral Home in Collom.
Funeral services were conducted at 4:00 pm by Rev. O.T. Fulton, pastor of St. John's Catholic Church. Miss Bessie Donahue was organist, Mrs. J.W. Erickson sang "Beyond Sunset."
Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cabery. Pall bearers were Arthur Smicker, Kenneth Hughes, William Murphy, Merritt Oakes, Charles Christ and Orville Bouk.
He was born near Cabery, November 4, 1876, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Skelton. He married Caroline Adams at Cabery. She died in 1952.
Surviving are a brother, Will W. Skelton, Vista, Minnesota and a sister, Mrs. Edith Ferner, Los Angles.

Obituary courtesy of Shirley Raiter

Transcribed by Charlotte Stevens Schneider, wife of Gary E. Schneider, Grandnephew of James Henry Skelton, Jr.
JAMES SKELTON, 89, CABERY MAN, DIES AT PAXTON
Services held Saturday at Cullom, Burial at Cabery.
James Skelton, 89, a retired carpenter, died in the Ford County Nursing Home, Paxton, at 10:20 am Thursday, May 19. He had been a patient there two months.
Visitation was at the Stewart Funeral Home in Collom.
Funeral services were conducted at 4:00 pm by Rev. O.T. Fulton, pastor of St. John's Catholic Church. Miss Bessie Donahue was organist, Mrs. J.W. Erickson sang "Beyond Sunset."
Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cabery. Pall bearers were Arthur Smicker, Kenneth Hughes, William Murphy, Merritt Oakes, Charles Christ and Orville Bouk.
He was born near Cabery, November 4, 1876, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Skelton. He married Caroline Adams at Cabery. She died in 1952.
Surviving are a brother, Will W. Skelton, Vista, Minnesota and a sister, Mrs. Edith Ferner, Los Angles.

Obituary courtesy of Shirley Raiter

Transcribed by Charlotte Stevens Schneider, wife of Gary E. Schneider, Grandnephew of James Henry Skelton, Jr.

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